In August, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced the award of $5 million to North Carolina to build charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs). The award came in two parts. The first is a $1 million grant to install 20 Level 2 EV charging stations at 10 community colleges across the state as part...

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...

In 2017, Buncombe County and the City of Asheville in western North Carolina adopted a resolution for the county operations to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2030, and the entire community by 2042. This made the community only the second in the Tar Heel State to adopt a clean energy goal. Since then,...

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...