North Carolina's Rural Infrastructure Authority approved a $1 million grant for sewer and water improvements at the Southeast Regional Airport Authority Industrial Park to support Great Southern Wood Preserving's planned $40 million lumber-treatment manufacturing facility, with 29 jobs tied to the grant.
The Nuclear Company announced Prosperity One, a proposed nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, where it has site control and plans initial engineering, environmental, interconnection, and federal licensing work for as many as six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced its intent to provide up to $50 million in Defense Production Act funding for a Virginia Energy-led project using advanced reconductoring and dynamic line ratings to add an estimated 290 megawatts of transmission capacity across Appalachian Power's Virginia system.
EMD Electronics opened a 38,000-square-foot research and development facility in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, with eight laboratories for semiconductor-materials discovery, qualification, scale-up, and technology transfer. The facility is part of a $200 million multi-state U.S. electronics investment program.
Imperial Irrigation District's El Centro Generating Station selected ROTEC systems to recover cooling-tower wastewater for onsite reuse and reduce discharge.