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Director’s Update – August 13, 2024

The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization (Energy Communities IWG) is pursuing a whole-of-government approach to create good-paying union jobs; spur economic revitalization; remediate environmental degradation; and support energy workers in coal, oil and gas, and power plant communities across the country. Empowering America’s Energy Communities: IWG Stakeholder Retreat […]

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Federal Working Group Hosts Stakeholder Retreat for More Than 175 Leaders From America’s Energy Communities

Federal Officials and Energy Community Leaders Discuss a Successful Path Forward for Economic Diversification and Worker Training in the Nation’s Coal, Oil, Gas and Power Plant Communities WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 8, 2024) – The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization (Energy Communities IWG) hosted a two-day retreat for energy

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Director’s Update – July 12, 2024

The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization (Energy Communities IWG) is pursuing a whole-of-government approach to create good-paying union jobs, spur economic revitalization, remediate environmental degradation and support energy workers in coal, oil and gas, and power plant communities across the country. Empowering America’s Energy Communities: IWG Stakeholder Retreat

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Downtown Pineville Revitalization

Pineville, Kentucky, is revitalizing its downtown after several years of feeling the impact of being one of the Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) economically distressed counties. The town is putting a significant emphasis on the new energy economy and infrastructure, including restaurants, businesses and housing. Starting in 2013, Main Street Pineville rolled out incentives for upkeeping

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Form Energy Success Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZM_1VUn120 American technology company Form Energy, Inc. is nearing completion of construction of Form Factory 1, the company’s first high-volume manufacturing facility. Located in Weirton, West Virginia, Form Factory 1 will be the site of production for iron-air batteries, which are used in renewable energy technologies including the electric grid. Form Energy broke ground on

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TerraPower Nuclear Plant

Image Courtesy of TerraPower TerraPower broke ground on its Natrium reactor near a retired coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in June 2024. Natrium will be the first commercial reactor in the state of Wyoming and one of the first advanced reactors to operate in the United States, expanding the state’s already impressive energy portfolio. The

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Gurney’s Bend Panel

Images from Council of State Community Development Agencies (COSCDA) The housing-education pipeline is being reimagined in the small town of Hazard, Kentucky. Gurney’s Bend — a partnership between the Housing Development Alliance (HDA) and the city of Hazard, Kentucky — brings 15 single-family affordable houses to a city that had not seen a new development in 50 years. Located in eastern Kentucky, #2 in the Energy Communities IWG’s

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