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ALL SYSTEMS GO

by Alexis Elmore

Kansas wields the history, infrastructure and smarts to make things fly.

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In a Region Known for Energy Resources, Tech Is Tomorrow’s Fuel

by Adam Bruns

Peace Bridge over the Bow River in Calgary.

Image by GettyImages

These days, seeing “cryptocurrency” and “custody” in the same sentence does not bode well.

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Features

New Mexico Is Riding A Breeze

by Gary Daughters

Pattern Energy Group’s Western Spirit Wind farm in New Mexico generates 1.05 GW of electricity.

Courtesy of Pattern Energy Group

The stage is set for the nation’s biggest wind energy investment.

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Kansas Connections

by Alexis Elmore

State workforce services ensure businesses and talent reach
new heights.

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Public, Private Investment Grew Kansas’ Biotech Sector in 2022

by Mark Arend

Biotech: Public, Private Investment Grew Kansas’ Biotech Sector in 2022

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Features

The Shape Of Things To Come

by Gary Daughters

Infrastructure investments drive momentum in the Midwest.

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Area Spotlights

Bald Tires No More: Incentive Fund Unlocks $9B in Capital Investment

by Gary Daughters

GM’s planned EV battery plant in Lansing

Photo courtesy of General Motors

Michigan: Bald Tires No More|: Incentive Fund Unlocks $9B in Capital Investment: New incentives deliver EV mega-projects for Michigan and its auto industry.

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Features

‘PROOF IS IN THE OUTCOMES’

by Adam Bruns

Site Selectors on Megasite Development

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Features

New York Is Where A New Age Begins

by Gary Daughters

The Zero Energy Nanotechnology (ZEN) building at Albany Nanotechnology Center.

Courtesy of SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Era-defining events, as if colliding, have coalesced to ignite a semiconductor revolution in the United States.

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Features

Let the Chips Fall Here

by Adam Bruns

If there’s any place better suited for the next semiconductor fab, Flint and Genesee County want to know about it.

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Investment Profile

Louisiana Industries’ Clean Energy Partner

by Mark Arend

Industrial consumers of energy today require much more from their utilities than reliable and competitively priced power.

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Stopping Hackers Is Job One in Kansas

by Ron Starner

Three of the country’s top cybersecurity schools call the Sunflower State home.

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Knowledge Gives Kansas Workers a Competitive Edge

by Ron Starner

Employers looking to hire the best and brightest don’t have to look far when they choose to set up shop in Kansas.

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Investment Profile

Let’s Make a Mega-Deal

by Mark Arend

REE Automotive is an Israeli electric vehicle technology company that chose Pflugerville for its North American HQ.

Photos courtesy of REE Automotive

How a highway transformed a small city into a boomtown.

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Where to Reshore Away from Both Shores

by Mark Arend

From 2010 to 2020, more than 1 million jobs were reshored back to the United States, according to Reshoring Initiative 2020 Data Report from the Reshoring Initiative.

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Features

Hit the On Switch

by Adam Bruns

Among the world’s highest concrete arch dams, the Enguri River Dam, located in western Georgia near to where the Enguri River emerges from the Caucasus Mountains , is not only part of a hydroelectric complex providing 1,300 MW of power but also at the center of an emerging tourist zone.

Already known as a crossroads of Europe and Asia, Georgia finds itself at several promising junctures.

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

by Mark Arend

Recent analysis from Brookings makes the case that the federal government is finally putting its money where its mouth is with respect to investing in domestic industrial development and local…

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Blessing the Beasts

by Gary Daughters

Kansas has built an animal health sciences corridor
that is second to none.

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The Tug of The Art Land

by Gary Daughters

A place where ‘nothing happens’ and its lessons from the galaxy.

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Features

Biggest Names in STEM Fly North For Talent

by Anna Reuter

Ubisoft, producer of the popular Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games, plans to triple its Winnipeg workforce over the next eight years, with a significant number of programming positions. Ubisoft has operations across Canada.

Photo courtesy of Ubisoft

Investment into Canadian workforce doubles down in three major industries.

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Features

Clean-Tech Multinationals Continue to Flood the Valley with Billions in Capital Investment

by Adam Bruns

A $216 million pilot project from TVA at the Shawnee Fossil Plant in Starkville, Mississippi, will be the nation’s first to explore repurposing a closed coal ash site for utility-scale solar power.

Rendering courtesy of TVA

ennessee’s advanced energy industry already employs nearly 394,000 Tennesseans in more than 20,300 businesses that contribute…

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Features

Places for Discovery: Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

by Adam Bruns

A 3D-printed pavilion created by students and printed by Knoxville-based Loci Robotics is accessible to people at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm and at the campus’s Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing.

Photo courtesy of University of Tennessee Research Park

Institutions With Energy’s Future On Their Minds Saturate TVA Territory

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Features

Ford’s BlueOval City Is the Prow of the Ship

by Adam Bruns

Ford’s prep work at BlueOval City has been proceeding since last spring, with an official groundbreaking taking place in September 2022.

Photo courtesy of Ford Motor Co.

Ford Motor Co. broke ground in September 2022 on its nearly 6-square-mile BlueOval City mega campus in Stanton, Tennessee.

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Features

TVA Floors the Clean Power Accelerator

by Adam Bruns

The Southeast Hydrogen Hub will focus on scalable, integrated projects at key locations across the Southeast region.

Hydrogen is one more area of innovation in a TVA portfolio that includes new nuclear, renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy storage.

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