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Loans

DOE Loan Programs Office Title 17 Clean Energy Financing

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open

Amount

Not published

Direct loans and loan guarantees for large-scale innovative clean energy, advanced transportation and tribal energy projects. Deal sizes are generally $100 million and above; not suited to seed-stage companies.

Funder

U.S. Department of Energy, Loan Programs Office

public · national

Deadline: rolling

Your odds

Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort

quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Sectors: energy, climate, mobility, manufacturing
Stage: growth
Locally registered entity required

Projects must deploy innovative technology (or, under the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment route, reinvest in existing energy infrastructure), be located in the US, and have a credible path to repayment.

How to apply

Submit a free, non-binding pre-application to LPO
If invited, submit Part I and Part II applications
Complete due diligence, negotiate terms and close

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.energy.gov/lpo/loan-programs-office — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked