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Hamilton: EPA's $20B Green Bank can leverage another $20B in debt

Katherine Hamilton · The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition · Jan 19, 2023 · at 31:06

Clean energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton discusses the structure and deployment mechanism of the IRA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

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“That is the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that I've been working on for years. It's basically the National Green Bank. It's twenty billion dollars that would go to a non-profit or some set of non-profits out of EPA and that nonprofit would be able to then take the twenty billion and borrow another twenty billion and then do direct and indirect investing.”

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The claim, plainly

The Inflation Reduction Act's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund allocates $20 billion through the EPA to nonprofits, which will be able to leverage that capital to borrow an additional $20 billion for investing.

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Assessment

Katherine Hamilton's description accurately reflected the execution of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) established by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The EPA structured $20 billion of the $27 billion fund into two competitive grant programs for nonprofits: the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) and the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA). In April 2024, the EPA awarded the entire $20 billion to eight nonprofit organizations, structured specifically to leverage private and borrowed capital at a ratio meeting or exceeding 1:1 for direct and indirect clean energy investments, finalizing grant agreements in August 2024.

The EPA structured the Inflation Reduction Act's $27B GGRF by allocating exactly $20B across two nonprofit programs: the National Clean Investment Fund ($14B) and the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator ($6B).
In April 2024, the EPA announced the selection of eight nonprofit entities to receive the $20 billion.
The awardees committed to leveraging the $20 billion in grant capital to mobilize multiple dollars of private and borrowed investment capital per grant dollar.
Grant agreements and obligating paperwork were finalized with the eight nonprofit recipients in August 2024.

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[1] columbia.edu [2] btlaw.com [3] epa.gov [4] energyfundsforall.org [5] epa.gov [6] enr.com [7] climateprogramportal.org [8] iratracker.org

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards April 2024 NCIF CCIA non-profit 20 billion EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund 20 billion nonprofit grant programs NCIF CCIA

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