One East Kentucky Featured in Site Selection Magazine
22 Jan 2018
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Moving Mountains
EnerBlü's two-pronged investment in Kentucky gets its power from a university town and a company town, both of which seek to diversify their economies.
"We used to pray for a Saturday off. Now we just pray that we will get to work at all." — one of 500 former eastern Kentucky coal workers interviewed by Boyette Strategic Advisors in 2016
Can a power systems company recharge a region?
The past decade is littered with allegedly innovative US battery-making ventures that went belly up despite government support. It's also littered with workers from the gradually declining coal industry who are tired of government support and just want jobs.
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EnerBlu, Inc., a high-power energy-storage solution company focusing on electric transportation, PV hybrid microgrid, power grid and genset hybridization, announced on December 15th that it will be relocating to East Kentucky. They are building a lithium battery gigafactory, including manufacturing final products, at the Kentucky Enterprise Industrial Park in Pikeville,...
One East Kentucky is proud to announce that EnerBlu is making its new home in East Kentucky. They will be investing $412 million and creating 975 jobs in the region. They will be bringing jobs to Kentucky from California, Europe, China, and Korea. “Our greatest asset in East Kentucky is...
SilverLiner, a new manufacturing company, is coming to Pikeville. The company will be located in the Kentucky Industrial Park and produce tanker trucks.
"It means more to me than anything to put our people back to work," Chris Tomlinson, owner of SilverLiner, said.
The company creates specialized tanker...