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1. The Iowa energy center created under section 15.120 shall establish and administer an
alternate energy revolving loan program to encourage the development of alternate energy
production facilities and small hydro facilities within the state.
2. a. An alternate energy revolving loan fund is created in the office of the treasurer of
state to be administered by the Iowa energy center.
b. The fund shall include moneys appropriated or otherwise directed to the fund.
c. Moneys in the fund shall be used to provide loans for the construction of alternate
energy production facilities or small hydro facilities as defined in section 476.42.
d.
(1)A gas or electric utility that is not required to be rate-regulated shall not be
eligible for a loan under this section. However, gas and electric utili
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1. The Iowa energy center created under section 15.120 shall establish and administer an
alternate energy revolving loan program to encourage the development of alternate energy
production facilities and small hydro facilities within the state.
2. a. An alternate energy revolving loan fund is created in the office of the treasurer of
state to be administered by the Iowa energy center.
b. The fund shall include moneys appropriated or otherwise directed to the fund.
c. Moneys in the fund shall be used to provide loans for the construction of alternate
energy production facilities or small hydro facilities as defined in section 476.42.
d. (1) A gas or electric utility that is not required to be rate-regulated shall not be
eligible for a loan under this section. However, gas and electric utilities not required to be
rate-regulated shall be eligible for loans from moneys remitted to the fund. Such loans shall
be limited to a maximum of five hundred thousand dollars per applicant and shall be limited
to one loan every two years.
(2) A facility shall be eligible for no more than one million dollars in loans outstanding at
any time under this program.
e. (1) Eachloanshallbeforaperiodnottoexceedtwentyyears,shallbearnointerest,and
shall be repayable to the fund created under this section in installments as determined by the
Iowa energy center. The interest rate upon delinquent payments shall accelerate immediately
to the current legal usury limit.
(2) Any loan made pursuant to this program shall become due for payment upon sale of
the facility for which the loan was made.
(3) Interest on the fund shall be deposited in the fund.
f. Section 8.33 shall not apply to the moneys in the fund.
3. The Iowa energy center shall not initiate any new loans under this section after June
30, 2021.
4. Loan payments received under this section on or after July 1, 2021, and any other
moneys in the fund on or after July 1, 2021, shall be deposited in the energy infrastructure
revolving loan fund created in section 476.46A.