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ElringKlinger will manufacture electric battery cell contacting systems at its new 226,000-square-foot facility located at 3800 Calhoun Memorial Highway in Easley. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
May 15, 2025

SC passes legislation to boost free-market EV charging stations

South Carolina passed a bill to ban utility-funded EV chargers, promoting a free-market approach and opening doors for private charging station investment.

AIRSYS Cooling Technologies is expanding in Spartanburg County with a $40 million investment that will create 215 new jobs. (Photo/AIRSYS)
May 8, 2025

AIRSYS sets new $40M HQ in Woodruff, to add 215 jobs

AIRSYS Cooling Technologies will invest $40M in a new HQ in Woodruff, creating 215 jobs and expanding innovation in data center cooling.

Alexander Adogwa (right) works with Ming Yang in an Earle Hall lab at Clemson University. (Photo/Clemson University)
Apr 1, 2025

Clemson research seeks way to make hydrogen energy more practical

A research team led by Clemson University’s Ming Yang is laying the groundwork for a new way of extracting hydrogen from ammonia, a development the researchers say could help make hydrogen a […]

Mar 24, 2025

IKEA parent company plans massive South Carolina solar park

The facility will have an estimated production equivalent of the annual consumption of 15,200 South Carolina households.

Funding is available to support equipment upgrades, communication tools, specialized training, planning initiatives, severe weather materials and kits, storm shelters and preparedness activities that benefit low-income communities. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Mar 21, 2025

Duke Energy offers $500,000 to support South Carolina first responders

HERO Grant Program will pay for training, equipment and new technology to aid in response to weather-related disasters …

Mar 7, 2025

New $134M Jasper County facility will help meet rising power needs

The facility will employ more than 400 workers to produce high-capacity power lines needed to expand the power grid …

Eaton is establishing new operations in Union County with a $340 million investment that will create 700 new jobs and establish a new manufacturing facility for three-phase transformers, critical to the nation’s power grid and across industries. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Feb 12, 2025

Global power company to open $340M Union County manufacturing facility

The investment, which will create over 700 jobs, is the 11th South Carolina site for the company.

South Carolina was awarded nearly $125 million in federal funding Monday to launch new statewide programs that will expand residential-serving community solar and grow its clean energy workforce, fueling renewable energy solutions to the Palmetto State’s growing energy generation demands. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Jan 28, 2025

South Carolina cooperative awarded $500M for clean energy projects

Funding will deliver nearly 700 megawatts of nuclear energy, solar power and battery storage capacity across all 46 South Carolina counties.

South Carolina was awarded nearly $125 million in federal funding Monday to launch new statewide programs that will expand residential-serving community solar and grow its clean energy workforce, fueling renewable energy solutions to the Palmetto State’s growing energy generation demands. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Jan 28, 2025

Columbia cooperative awarded $500M for clean energy projects

Funding will deliver nearly 700 megawatts of nuclear energy, solar power and battery storage capacity across all 46 South Carolina counties.

PHENOGY AG has announced plans to open its U.S. headquarters in Columbia. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Jan 15, 2025

Swiss sustainable energy company to establish US HQ in Columbia

The company will begin with opening its HQ in Columbia and focusing on building its U.S. business development and product teams.

A spokesperson for The Duke Endowment says the organization will take part in rebuilding efforts now that it has distributed nearly $15 million in relief funds. (Photo/DepositPhotos)
Jan 2, 2025

Where The Duke Foundation distributed $15M to Helene relief funds

Energy company endowment distributes relief funds to hard-hit areas of North and South Carolina.

Johney Green Jr. currently serves as the associate laboratory director for mechanical and thermal engineering sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (Photo/Battelle)
Dec 17, 2024

New director headed to Aiken national energy lab

Next boss currently oversees transportation, buildings, wind, water, geothermal, advanced manufacturing and Arctic research programs …