Unleashing American Energy Infrastructure & Innovation
The U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office (LPO) under the Trump Administration is committed to financing American energy and manufacturing projects that meaningfully contribute to U.S. energy security, grid reliability, and lowering costs for all Americans. LPO empowers the private sector to invest in the future, win the AI race, strengthen American industry, and restore American Energy Dominance.
LPO is working on behalf of the American people to:
- SECURE & STRENGTHEN American energy assets.
- BOOST American energy innovation and technologies.
- EXPAND affordable, reliable, and secure energy for all Americans.
- CREATE American jobs.
- BOLSTER national security.
In response to the nation’s growing energy demands and the loss of hundreds of baseload plants, LPO stands ready to partner with the private sector to strengthen America’s energy foundation and support U.S. leadership in emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Through its financing programs, the DOE supports the Trump Administration and Secretary Wright’s efforts to enhance energy security, maintain technological leadership, and ensure an affordable, reliable, and secure energy supply for all Americans.
Introducing the Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) Program
Created by the Working Families Tax Cut, and thanks to President Trump, the Department of Energy Loan Program Office’s revamped and renamed Energy Dominance Financing Program is a core pillar to the Administration’s strategy to win the global AI race with common-sense approaches to increasing the nation’s energy supply through new eligibility for clean coal and oil and gas power-generated projects, securing critical mineral supply chains, and reinvigorating the nuclear industry.
The Energy Dominance Financing Program (Section 1706 or EDF Program) guarantees loans to projects that add energy to the grid or enhance reliability. The program finances projects that:
- Retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure that have ceased operations;
- Enable operating infrastructure to increase capacity and output; or
- Support or enable the provision of known or forecastable electric supply at time intervals necessary to maintain or enhance grid reliability or other system adequacy needs
The Energy Dominance Financing Program can also finance critical materials projects and secure America’s critical minerals supply chain, reflecting the important applications of critical minerals and materials across the energy sector.
The Energy Dominance Financing Program can support a wide range of outcomes, including:
- Upgrading or uprating energy infrastructure so it can restart or operate at higher output
- Replacing retired energy infrastructure with new energy infrastructure to increase power available to the grid
- Building new dispatchable or baseload power generation facilities
- Maintaining, enhancing, or replacing electric grid and transmission infrastructure
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