The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has received notice of award from the Department of Energy (DOE) on KCC’s Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund (EERLF) application in response to Section 40502 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

The award, totaling $6,706,230, will provide loans and grants for energy efficiency audits, upgrades, and retrofits to increase energy efficiency and improve the comfort of buildings. No matching funds are required.

The KCC will support this Program through the establishment of a new revolving loan fund program working with local federal and state chartered banks, credit unions, and community development financial institutions certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury CDFI Fund. With the KCC participating in the loans, it will reduce the interest rate for eligible borrowers and reduce the risk for lenders.

Eligible lenders, borrowers, and awarded recipients of the subgrants will be required to report at least quarterly. Reports required by DOE and/or the KCC may include measurable improvements of energy efficiency or conservation, stakeholders engaged, value of contracts or agreements with minority owned businesses for supplies, services, or equipment, and accountability toward meeting project milestones. 

Eligible lenders and borrowers will be required to report and comply with the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act utilizing LCPTracker. This will require weekly submitting of payroll during the duration of the eligible project. 

The KCC is seeking applications from eligible lenders for participation in the EERLF program, and applications from eligible entities for subawards for an Energy Audit subsidy that meet the criteria set out herein. 

Program Guidance

Eligible Entities for Energy Audit Subsidy: 

• An entity who owns or operates* one of the following: an agricultural building/facility; a building/facility occupied by a nonprofit organization; a building/facility occupied by a small business (500 employees or less; must conduct the majority of its business in Kansas); a publicly- or privately-owned school building/facility (K-12, college or university); or a publicly- or privately-owned building/facility occupied by state or local government 
• The program will focus on those facilities located in rural, disadvantaged or underserved communities whose need for capital to fund energy efficiency upgrades and retrofits is greatest, and with the availability of subgrant funding the projects would be economically harmful for its constituents and may therefore not be undertaken. 
• All subsidies for energy audits would be limited to no more than three buildings for each recipient. 
• The program will reimburse the building owner for 100% of the cost of qualified energy audits for nonprofit buildings. For energy audits of all other eligible buildings, the program will reimburse the building owners for two-thirds of the cost of a qualified energy audit and will reimburse the other one-third of the cost to be building owner upon once the owner has implemented at least one of the recommended measures in the energy audit report.

Energy Audit Requirements: 

•  Determine the overall consumption of energy of the facility of the eligible recipient. 
• Identify and recommend lifecycle cost-effective opportunities to reduce the energy consumption of the facility of the eligible recipient. 
• Identify the period and level of peak energy demand for each building within the facility of the eligible recipient and the sources of energy consumption that are contributing the most to that period of peak energy demand. 
• Recommend controls and management systems to reduce or redistribute peak energy consumption. 
• Estimate the total energy and cost savings potential for the facility of the eligible recipient if all recommended upgrades and retrofits are implemented, using Audit Template, or such other audit software approved by DOE which complies with the BuildingSync data format.

Additional Information 

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Kansas Corporation Commission website 

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