Grow local, global supply chain challenges and a resurgence in American manufacturing have made food and beverage manufacturing a hot corporate site location topic. Regions with a strong base of food and beverage manufacturing employers and workforce are attractive to companies in this industry seeking to expand current facilities or locate new ones. Industries tend […]

The Montrose Group in 2024 launched the Montrose Fellows Fund as a not-for-profit, donor-advised fund, to address economic opportunity. The Montrose Fellows Fund over six months of 2024 hosted a series of Business Development Bootcamps in partnership with the Ohio Department of Development, Minority Business Development Division to support the success of Ohio minority, women,

Solutions to America’s energy crisis focus on increased investment in the electric grid, creating new utility rate approaches, and capturing natural gas to build data center power plants. Energy-intensive industries can address their energy demand challenge by maximizing energy efficiency, enhancing demand flexibility, getting more out of existing grid infrastructure, and negotiating for additional carbon-free

At the exact moment American industry needs additional electricity to make billions in economic investments, local, state, and federal government policymakers are disrupting efforts to generate that needed electricity.  For supply to keep pace with demand given these trends, PJM needs as many new generation to find their way onto the system as possible. PJM

The U.S. energy delivery system that ran the Industrial Revolution and made the United States a global economic powerhouse is facing substantial challenges that threaten the economic future of the nation, states, and regions.  For the last several years, utilities throughout the United States have been facing COVID-19-based supply chain challenges for the materials needed

Answering the budding energy crisis challenges needs to begin with understanding how the United States delivers one of its most precious commodities – electricity.  It seems like everything we use requires more electricity to run. As shopping becomes an experience on our smartphones with fewer trips to the mall, cars transition to electricity, and automation

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The federal government based upon several new programs creates opportunities for Electric Vehicle related companies and corporate site location projects. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provides over $320 B in incentives designed to increase clean energy production in the United States, support energy innovation, and encourage investing in disadvantaged communities and projects that

EV companies considering a supply chain investment need to negotiate for economic development incentives.  All states will use economic development incentives to attract EV suppliers but Ohio offers a worthy model for review.  Ohio offers extended local property tax abatements and Tax Increment Financing (TIF), construction materials sales tax exemptions, and special state economic development

While the location of large-scale EV battery production facilities may slow in 2024, the development of the EV battery supply chain for existing EV battery facilities will not.  As the map of the EV Battery Belt from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas illustrates, EV battery facilities have been announced and are developing across the