Affordable Rural Cooperative (ARC) Energy Program
- Award ceiling
- up to $20,000,000
- Closes
- Not stated
- Last verified
- 2026-09-15
Awards up to $20,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification).
In one sentence
Affordable Rural Cooperative (ARC) Energy Program awards up to $20,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification).
- Program pool (total)
- $175,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $20,000,000available under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Not stated
- Deadline type
- Not stated
- Opens
- Oct 19, 2026
- Status
- Forecasted
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Advance(s)
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- advanced, efficient transmission infrastructure · nuclear power supply
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “available under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limit(1) Operating Electric cooperatives described in section 501(c)(12) or 1381(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 who are currently or have been in the past a RUS electric loan borrower pursuant to the RE Act;(2) Electric…
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What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
3 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Advance(s)
- Matching funds
- YesRUS will finance up to 75 percent; awardee required to provide 25 percent of total capitalized cost
What comparable notices state
20 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Energy, 20 of 34 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$1,462,500
- Median$4,750,000
- 75th percentile$20,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $20,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “available under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $175,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- advanced, efficient transmission infrastructure, nuclear power supply, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds. RUS will finance up to 75 percent; awardee required to provide 25 percent of total capitalized cost
- Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
- Paid in advance rather than as a reimbursement.
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