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Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (TELGP) - FY 2018-2027

Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Federal FON: 89303018RLP000005
Office: Loan Programs Office
Multipart Grant: No
Next Due: 03/16/2025 (Multiple)
Solicitation Date: 07/17/2018
   
Match Required: No
Actual Funds: Unspecified
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to guarantee up to 90 percent of the unpaid principal and interest on loans borrowed by Indian tribes to support energy development projects and activities. The funding agency is particularly focused on catalyzing the use of commercially available technologies in Indian country. Projects employing commercial technologies are preferred. The program will support a broad range of energy-related projects, including:

  • Electricity generation, transmission and/or distribution facilities, utilizing renewable or conventional energy sources
  • Energy storage facilities, whether or not integrated with any of the above
  • Energy resource extraction, refining or processing facilities
  • Energy transportation facilities, including pipelines
  • District heating and cooling facilities
  • Cogeneration facilities
  • Distributed energy project portfolios, including portfolios of smaller distributed generation and storage facilities employed pursuant to a unified business plan

The program has the following policy priorities, as they relate to disadvantaged and tribal comunities:

  • Decrease energy burden
  • Decrease environmental exposure and burdens
  • Increase access to low-cost capital
  • Increase the clean energy job pipeline and job training for individuals
  • Increase clean energy enterprise creation
  • Increase energy democracy, including community ownership and other economic benefits associated with the energy transition
  • Increase parity in clean energy technology access and adoption
  • Increase energy resilience

Projects must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as other statutes outlined on pages 30-32 of the NOFA file.

Funds may be used for:

  • Costs of acquisition, lease, or rental of real property, including engineering fees, surveys, title insurance, recording fees, and legal fees incurred in connection with land acquisition, lease or rental, site improvements, site restoration, access roads, and fencing
  • Costs of engineering, architectural, legal and bond fees, and insurance paid in connection with construction of the facility
  • Costs of equipment purchases, including a reasonable reserve of spare parts to the extent required
  • Costs to provide facilities and services related to safety and environmental protection
  • Costs of financial, legal, and other professional services, including services necessary to obtain required licenses and permits and to prepare environmental reports and data
  • Costs of issuing eligible project debt, such as fees, transaction, and other costs
  • Costs of necessary and appropriate insurance and bonds of all types including letters of credit and any collateral required therefore
  • Costs of design, engineering, startup, commissioning and shakedown
  • Costs of obtaining licenses to intellectual property necessary to design, construct, and operate the projects
  • As applicable, costs of funding any reserve fund, including without limitation, a debt service reserve, a maintenance reserve, and a contingency reserve for cost overruns during construction
  • Capitalized interest necessary to meet market requirements and other carrying costs during construction
  • Other necessary and reasonable project costs

Last Updated: October 06, 2022

Eligibility Notes:

Eligible applicants are financial institutions and tribal lenders that are federally regulated commercial banks, other financial institutions, and tribal institutions. Lenders must demonstrate experience and capability to evaluate, underwrite, and negotiate energy development loans, similar to proposed loans with their tribal customers. Entities that are not federally recognizable tribes must be 100 percent tribally owned entities.

Refer to pages 34-35 of the NOFA file for a list of required qualifications for applicants.

Eligible applicants also include joint ventures, which are duly authorized corporate entities, including corporations, partnerships, or limited liability companies that are majority-owned and controlled by one or more native tribes, and that have the written consent of the governing bodies of all participating tribes participating to apply for loan guarantees under this solicitation. Joint ventures may have one or more non-tribal participants. Refer to the SolicitationAmendment file for additional information.

All applicants must be applying to guarantee loans made to eligible borrowers, which are:

  • Indian tribes or entities, including Alaska Native villages or regional or village corporations
  • Other financial institutions or tribes (or their wholly owned entities with appropriate legal authority) for special projects and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians

Projects may be located anywhere in the United States, including on tribal land or outside of tribal land, as long as they benefit tribes. Applicants are strongly encouraged to demonstrate, in their applications, the measurable benefits that projects will provide to one or more tribes.

Eligible Applicants:
Consortia
Native American Tribe
Non Profits
Private Sector
Tribal Organizations/Institutions
Application Notes:

Mandatory part I applications must be received by one of the following dates:

  • September 18, 2019
  • January 15, 2020
  • February 12, 2020
  • March 18, 2020
  • April 15, 2020
  • May 13, 2020
  • June 17, 2020
  • July 15, 2020
  • August 12, 2020
  • September 16, 2020
  • October 14, 2020
  • November 18, 2020
  • December 16, 2020
  • January 13, 2021
  • February 17, 2021
  • March 17, 2021
  • April 14, 2021
  • May 12, 2021
  • June 16, 2021
  • July 14, 2021
  • August 18, 2021
  • September 15, 2021
  • October 13, 2021
  • November 17, 2021
  • December 15, 2021
  • January 12, 2022
  • February 16, 2022
  • March 16, 2022
  • March 16, 2025
  • August 31, 2028

Prior to submitting applications, applicants are encouraged to contact the funding agency, using the information provided in the Contact section.

Part I applications must be submitted online at dart.loanprograms.energy.gov.

Part I applications must include:

  • Application information
  • Project organization
  • Lender/applicant organization
  • Project description
  • Technical information
  • Financial information
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Application certifications

Applications must be submitted on standard-sized pages with one-inch margins on all sides (except charts, graphics, and similar materials), and typed in an 11-point or larger font.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

  • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
  • SAM (System for Award Management) registration

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.

Part I applications will be evaluated based on eligibility. Refer to pages 9-10 of the NOFA file for details.

Applicants that submit successful part I applications will be invited to submit part II applications. Refer to pages 2-3 of the SolicitationAmendment file for information regarding part II application deadlines. The last deadline for part II applications will be March 16, 2025.

Refer to the NOFA and SolicitationAmendment files for additional application information.

Match Required: No
Actual Funds: Unspecified
Match Notes:

There are no stated matching requirements for this program. The program will guarantee up to 90 percent of the unpaid principal and interest due on loans. Tribal borrowers will be required to invest equity in projects.

Refer to pages 10-11 and pages 42-43 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding fees for which applicants will be responsible.

Funding Notes:

Rather than providing monetary awards, this program guarantees up to $2 billion in loans to support tribal energy development projects and activities. The program may guarantee up to 90 percent of the maximum aggregate principal amount and interest due on loans.

In addition to the funds available for loan guarantees, a total of $8.5 million is available to pay credit subsidies associated with loan guarantees.

Funds may not be used for:

  • Fees and commissions charged to borrowers, including finder's fees, for obtaining federal or other funds
  • Parent corporation or other affiliated entity's general and administrative expenses, and non-eligible project-related parent corporation or affiliated entity assessments, including organizational expenses
  • Goodwill, franchise, trade, or brand name costs
  • Dividends and profit sharing to stockholders, employees, and officers
  • Research, development, and demonstration costs of readying an innovative technology for employment in a commercial project
  • Costs that are excessive or are not directly required to carry out the eligible project
  • Expenses incurred after startup, commissioning, and shakedown of the facility, or, at the funding agency's discretion, any portion of the facility that has completed startup, commissioning, and shakedown
  • Administrative costs of issuing a loan guarantee and any other fee collected by the funding agency
  • Operating costs
Contacts:

Program Staff
(202) 586-1262
TELGP@hq.doe.gov

Agency Address
U.S. Department of Energy
Loan Programs Office
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585

Contact Notes:

Questions should be directed to the program staff. Emailed questions should include "RE: TELGP Project Question," in addition to a short title describing the question.

Part I applications must be submitted online at dart.loanprograms.energy.gov.

The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.

Files:
NOFA File: US15677_NOFA_FY2018-27.pdf (473.2 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15677_Overview_FY2018-27.pdf (469.0 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15677_ApplicationDeadlines_FY2018-27.pdf (191.4 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15677_SolicitationAmendment_FY2018-27.pdf (214.4 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US15677_SolicitationAmendment2_FY2018-27.pdf (145.0 Kb)
File Notes:

The NOFA file contains the updated solicitation for this program. The Overview file contains a concise overview of the program, in addition to a program fact sheet. The ApplicationDeadlines file contains a list of part I and part II application deadlines for this program. The SolicitationAmendment and SolicitationAmendment2 files contain summaries of changes made to the solicitation for this program, including updated application deadlines.

October 6, 2022
An updated solicitation for this program has been released and attached as the NOFA file. Additionally, a synopsis of changes made to the solicitation has been released and attached as the SolicitationAmendment2 file. The Application section has been updated accordingly.

August 8, 2022
An updated solicitation for this program has been released and attached as the revised NOFA file.

June 10, 2022
An updated solicitation for this program has been released and attached as the NOFA file. All sections have been updated accordingly.

January 21, 2020
An updated solicitation for this program has been released and attached as the NOFA file. Additionally, a synopsis of changes made to the solicitation has been released and attached as the SolicitationAmendment file. The Eligibility and Application sections have been updated accordingly.

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