CDFA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Resource Hub
The Inflation Reduction Act created a first-of-its-kind, national-scale program: the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)—a $27 billion investment to mobilize financing and private capital to address the climate crisis, ensure our country’s economic competitiveness, and promote energy independence while delivering lower energy costs and economic revitalization to communities that have historically been left behind. The GGRF will be implemented via three grant competitions--the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund, the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator, and the $7 billion Solar for All competition.
The CDFA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Resource Hub includes resources on the GGRF's programs and award recipients, the latest GGRF news, research, the U.S. EPA's updated program guidance and compliance standards, and information on each jurisdiction's Solar for All program to help you better understand the GGRF and stay up-to-date as awardees implement their proposals and invest in clean projects.
+National Clean Investment Fund
Under the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund program, EPA has selected three applicants to establish national clean financing institutions that deliver accessible, affordable financing for clean technology projects nationwide, partnering with private-sector investors, developers, community organizations, and others to deploy projects, mobilize private capital at scale, and enable millions of Americans to benefit from the program through energy bill savings, cleaner air, job creation, and more.
+Climate United Fund ($6.97 billion award)
Climate United Fund is a nonprofit formed by Calvert Impact to partner with two U.S. Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Self-Help Ventures Fund and Community Preservation Corporation. Together, these three nonprofit financial institutions bring a decades-long track record of successfully raising and deploying $30 billion in capital with a focus on low-income and disadvantaged communities. Climate United Fund’s program will focus on investing in harder-to-reach market segments like consumers, small businesses, small farms, community facilities, and schools—with at least 60% of its investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities, 20% in rural communities, and 10% in tribal communities.
Coalition Members/Named Subrecipients: CPC Green Housing Decarbonization Fund LLC and Self-Help Climate Capital LLC
Read Climate United Fund's application details
Climate United Fund's NCIF application
+ Coalition for Green Capital ($5 billion award)
Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) is a nonprofit with almost 15 years of experience helping establish and work with dozens of state, local, and nonprofit green banks that have already catalyzed $20 billion into qualified projects—and that have a pipeline of $30 billion of demand for green bank capital that could be coupled with more than twice that in private investment. The Coalition for Green Capital’s program will have particular emphasis on public-private investing and will leverage the existing and growing national network of green banks as a key distribution channel for investment—with at least 50% of investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities.
Coalition Members/Named Subrecipients: California Infrastructure Bank; City First Enterprises, Inc.; Colorado Clean Energy Fund; Connecticut Green Bank; Community Development Venture Capital Alliance; DC Green Finance Authority; Efficiency Maine Trust; Elemental Excelerator, Inc.; Illinois Finance Authority/Climate Bank; Michigan Saves, Inc.; Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority; Montgomery County Green Bank Corporation; New Jersey Economic Development Authority; New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation; New York Green Bank; Ohio Air Quality Development Authority; Solar and Energy Loan Fund; State Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority - Missouri
Read Coalition for Green Capital's application details
Coalition for Green Capital's NCIF application
+ Power Forward Communities, Inc. ($2 billion award)
Power Forward Communities (PFC) is a nonprofit coalition formed by five of the country’s most trusted housing, climate, and community investment groups that are dedicated to decarbonizing and transforming American housing to save homeowners and renters money, reinvest in communities, and tackle the climate crisis. The coalition members—Enterprise Community Partners, LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), Rewiring America, Habitat for Humanity, and United Way—will draw on their decades of experience, which includes deploying over $100 billion in community-based initiatives and investments, to build and lead a national financing program providing customized and affordable solutions for single-family and multi-family housing owners and developers—with at least 75% of investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities.
Read Power Forward Communities'application details
Power Forward Communities' NCIF application
+Clean Communities Investment Accelerator
Under the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA), the five selected applicants will establish hubs that provide funding and technical assistance to community lenders working in low-income and disadvantaged communities, providing an immediate pathway to deploy projects in those communities while also building capacity of hundreds of community lenders to finance projects for years. Each of the selectees will provide capitalization funding (typically up to $10 million per community lender), technical assistance subawards (typically up to $1 million per community lender), and technical assistance services so that community lenders can provide financial assistance to deploy distributed energy, net-zero buildings, and zero-emissions transportation projects where they are needed most. 100% of capital under the CCIA is dedicated to low-income and disadvantaged communities.
+Opportunity Finance Network ($2.29 billion award)
Opportunity Finance Network is a ~40-year-old nonprofit CDFI Intermediary that provides capital and capacity building for a national network of 400+ community lenders—predominantly U.S. Treasury-certified CDFI Loan Funds—which collectively hold $42 billion in assets and serve all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories.
Opportunity Finance Network's CCIA application
+Inclusiv ($1.87 billion award)
Inclusiv is a ~50-year-old nonprofit CDFI Intermediary that provides capital and capacity building for a national network of 900+ mission-driven, regulated credit unions—which include CDFIs, and financial cooperatives in Puerto Rico—that collectively manage $330 billion in assets and serve 23 million individuals across the country.
Inclusiv's CCIA application
+Justice Climate Fund ($940 million award)
Justice Climate Fund is a purpose-built nonprofit supported by an existing ecosystem of coalition members, a national network of more than 1,200 community lenders, and ImpactAssets—an experienced nonprofit with $3 billion under management—to provide responsible, clean energy-focused capital and capacity-building to community lenders across the country.
Justice Climate Fund's CCIA application
+Appalachian Community Capital ($500 million award)
Appalachian Community Capital is a nonprofit CDFI with a decade of experience working with community lenders in Appalachian communities, which is launching the Green Bank for Rural America to deliver clean capital and capacity-building assistance to hundreds of community lenders working in coal, energy, underserved rural, and tribal communities across the United States.
Appalachian Community Capital's CCIA application
+Native CDFI Network ($400 million)
Native CDFI Network is a nonprofit that serves as a national voice and advocate for the 60+ U.S. Treasury-certified Native CDFIs, which have a presence in 27 states across rural reservation communities as well as urban communities and have a mission to address capital access challenges in Native communities.
Native CDFI Network's CCIA application
+Solar for All
Under the $7 billion Solar for All program, the 60 selected applicants will create new or expand existing low-income solar programs, which will enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy.
Collectively, these programs will deliver on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s objectives by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution, delivering cost savings on electric bills for overburdened households, and unlocking new markets for distributed solar in 25 states and territories that have never had a statewide low-income solar program before.
Solar for All Selected Applicants
Solar for All Fast Facts
FAQs About Solar for All
+Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund - Resources
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