Closed · DE-FOA-0002716 · CFDA 81.041 · Discretionary

Request for Information (RFI): Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

Federal grant opportunity posted by Golden Field Office, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$2
Award range
Closed
Status
May 6, 2022
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

Request for Information (RFI): Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs is a closed discretionary listing from Golden Field Office that offered $1 -- $2. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 839 other opportunities from Golden Field Office.

$1-$2
award range
Closed
application status
81.041
CFDA program
839
other opportunities from Golden Field Office

Archived opportunity record

Request for Information is closed (last close May 6, 2022). The parent program page for CFDA 81.041 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Golden Field Office still indexes 839 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed May 6, 2022

Posted Mar 31 Closes May 6

Instrument

Other

Description

Request for Information (RFI): Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs. This request for information is intended to inform the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on promising, innovative, and best practices for designing revolving loan funds (RLFs). DOE is seeking to create program guidance that will assist States, as well as potentially other entities, in designing, managing, and improving RLFs. The goal is to collect information that will ultimately support creation of RLFs that effectively serve a wide array of borrowers with beneficial energy efficiency products and services and enable private sector capital to scale access to energy efficiency financing. On November 15, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; Public Law 117-58), which appropriated $250 million to DOE to make funds available to States to implement energy efficiency revolving loan fund capitalization grant programs (Sec. 40502, or 42 U.S.C. 18792). These capitalization grants enable States to establish a RLF to provide loans and provide grants for commercial and residential energy audits, energy upgrades, and retrofits among other activities. Many States have experience running RLFs, such as through use of funds made available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law No. 111-5). The IIJA offers a new opportunity to support establishment of new RLFs where they do not currently exist, or to augment and diversify offerings of existing RLFs. Section 40502 of the IIJA offers States flexibility in designing and implementing these RLFs, within limits set by the statute and the Secretary of Energy. More information about RLFs can be found here: https://www.energy.gov/eere/slsc/revolving-loan-funds Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to EERevolvingLoanFund@ee.doe.gov no later than 11:59 pm (ET) on May 6, 2022. This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. EERE will not pay for information provided under this RFI and no project will be supported as a result of this RFI. This RFI is not accepting applications for financial assistance or financial incentives. EERE may or may not issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) based on consideration of the input received from this RFI. Please see full text of the RFI DE--FOA-0002716 at HTTPS://EERE-EXCHANGE.ENERGY.GOV

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · DE-FOA-0002716

Grants.gov marks Request for Information with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Other. Funding-activity code maps to Energy (EN). This eligibility-code string dominates the Golden Field Office book (634 peers, 75% of 840).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Lindsay Eaves 240-562-1371 lindsay.eaves@ee.doe.gov

What to do next

Request for Information is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 81.041 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • State Energy Program indexes 1 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Golden Field Office lists 839 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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