Out of the 35 projects being invested in by the Department of Energy, one of the projects happening in North Carolina is an $18 million dollar investment granted to Siemens Energy. This is to advance upon the already existing facilities in Charlotte to create cleaner energy and implement more jobs for local residents.

“We look globally to decide where to make these factories and where to make our products, and without these incentives that could very much go to other locations,” said Rich Voorberg, president of Siemens North America via WRAL. 

With Siemens advancements, they will also invest their own $150 million dollars to create more than 400 jobs at the energy manufacturing facilities in Charlotte. 

These groups of projects were enacted through President Joe Biden’s investments to create cleaner energy for the environment, lowering gas emissions and building on cleaner energy across the states.

On the list of things to do for the Clean Energy Plan, which was established by the elected North Carolina Climate Change Interagency Council under Governor Cooper, is to reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Another bullet point for the plan is to speed up the development of these energy changes being made in the states. In doing this, it will make opportunities for jobs and money equally efficient in both areas with higher population and areas with lower population.

Through this funding, the Department of Energy’s “energy communities” will be made in place of closing coal mines and plants in order to make outdated energy sources into cleaner and more efficient ways to provide energy.

“These investments are happening all across the country and that is going to help us transition faster and to make sure that these jobs aren’t shipped overseas,” said Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina.

For North Carolina, this plan is going to try and fix the decline in opportunities for jobs while simultaneously producing a cleaner Earth and supporting economic stability.