As the U.S. moves toward a clean energy future, tech giant Siemens has made a $36 million investment in its Wendell, North Carolina Electrification and Automation U.S. headquarters. The facility, which has been home to Siemens’ U.S. medium-voltage business since 1980, has already created over 250 new jobs over the past year. It now has...

Vietnamese solar panel manufacturer Boviet Solar is building a 1.1 million square foot facility in Pitt County, North Carolina, a move that will bring more than 900 new, high-paying jobs to the Greenville area.  The project involves renovating an existing 500,000 square foot building to create a state-of-the-art plant to produce high-performance photovoltaic panels.They will...

When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power to over 1.5 million homes, restoring electrical service was an extraordinarily difficult task in many areas. Heavily wooded mountainous terrain made the job a challenge from the start. However, thanks to groups like the Footprint Project, solar power is becoming an affordable way to get the lights back....

Island and remote coastal communities often bear the brunt of intense storms and hurricanes and then need to wait for help to arrive. Marine scientists from East Carolina University (ECU) and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) are partnering to study the problem with funding from a National Science Foundation grant. They will study how...