In July 2023, Enphase announced a $60 million investment in a new manufacturing facility in Columbia, South Carolina, creating 600 new jobs in the state and 1,200 jobs across the country. Enphase said the facility was “made possible” by the Inflation Reduction Act’s financial incentives for clean energy manufacturing.
Cummins Inc. announced today that the company has been awarded $75 million to convert approximately 360,000 sq. ft. of existing manufacturing space at its Columbus (Indiana) Engine Plant (CEP) for zero-emissions components and electric powertrain systems. The $75 million grant is the largest federal grant ever awarded solely to Cummins and is part of the appropriations related to the Inflation Reduction Act.
The City of Columbus has contracted with two local energy suppliers on behalf of its residents and small businesses to provide them with competitively priced 100% Ohio-based clean energy. This initiative is expected to create 4,000 local jobs and reduce health-harming emissions by 4.4 metric tons - the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the road.
In summer 2024, Watts-Willowbrook Church of Christ in Compton, California, in collaboration with RE-volv and California Interfaith Power & Light (CIPL), celebrated the commissioning of their new 12-kW rooftop solar and upcoming battery storage installation. Known in the community as “The Brook,” the congregation is uniquely made up of over 100 people from three neighboring South Central LA communities: Compton, Watts, and Willowbrook.
Panasonic is building the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturing plant in De Soto, Kansas, which is set to begin production in the spring of 2025. In preparation for its launch, Panasonic partnered with Johnson Community College and Kansas City Community College to deveop an apprenticeship program that involves classes at the community college and on-the-job training. Once the program is completed, students will be among the first of the plant's expected 4,000 workers. As part of the program, Panasonic also paid for the students' tuition and the instructor's salary.
This program provides 0% interest loans that help low- and moderate-income homeowners rehabilitate their homes and provides grants to remove diseased trees and replant new trees to restore the urban canopy.
On April 25, 2025, San Francisco installed the city's first curbside electric vehicle chargers as part of an ongoing pilot program to bring more curbside charging to the city. This first installation of a pair of Level 2 chargers was made possible through a collaboration between the city and curbside charging firm "it's electric." The city is currently accepting applications from other EV charging providers as part of the pilot program.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Atlanta Housing as a recipient of the Best of the Betters: 2023 Better Practice Winner for its Energy Efficiency Rent Boost (EERB) program at the Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit in Washington, DC.
The Indiana Resilience Funding Hub helps Hoosier local governments, community-based organizations, and small businesses pursue grant funding for climate, energy, and resilience projects. The Hub is targeted at communities with fewer than 50,000 residents that lack the capacity to compete for grant funding on their own -- providing them with with technical assistance and state-specific environmental expertise in the preparation and submission of competitive grant applications. So far, it has helped partners secure over $1 million in federal grants.
Deep below our earth’s surface runs a natural resource that the City of Boise has been utilizing for more than a century. A river of geothermally heated water flows under our city’s foothills. From heating buildings to sidewalk snowmelt and warming recreational pools, the City of Boise’s geothermal heating utility is innovative, renewable – and sustainable to the core.