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Rural Electrification Loans and Loan Guarantees

Program Information

Popular name

Electric Loans and Loan Guarantees

Program Number

10.850

Program objective

To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to electric services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation and to assist borrowers in implementation of demand-side management, energy efficiency and conservation programs and on-grid and off-grid renewable energy systems.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    Eighty borrowers were awarded loans and $7,330,670,000 of funds were obligated.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

7 CFR XVII. RUS publishes and issues upon request bulletins bearing on the financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of rural electric systems.