The DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) is considering whether to issue a loan guarantee of a funding facility to American Electric Power (AEP, or the Applicant) pursuant to its authority under the EIR 1706 Program.
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
March 11, 2025
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DOE Title XVII Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR 1706) Program was established pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which amended Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include the EIR Program. The EIR Program provides loan guarantees for projects that either: (1) retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure that has ceased operations; provided that if the project involves electricity generation through the use of fossil fuels, it is required to have controls or technologies to avoid, reduce, utilize, or sequester air pollutants and anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; or (2) projects that enable operating energy infrastructure to avoid, reduce, utilize, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
The DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) is considering whether to issue a loan guarantee of a funding facility to American Electric Power (AEP, or the Applicant) pursuant to its authority under the EIR 1706 Program. In its application, AEP has identified Project 6, the West Mount Vernon-Mount Vernon 69kV & Pittsburgh Avenue Extension Project (Project) for inclusion in the funding facility that is the subject of DOE’s loan guarantee. The Project, which involves rebuilding and extending select transmission lines in Knox County, Ohio, spans approximately three miles in a developed setting.