Power Provision Is Just the Beginning
2 Sep 2024
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Each year, via data gathered from an annual questionnaire in addition to our staff’s own research into utilities with active economic development departments, Site Selection recognizes the Top Utilities in economic development based on corporate end-user project activity in their regions.
With a few exceptions, job creation totals are down this year from the year before, with most capex figures lower or holding steady. This could be related to the extreme load demand on the U.S. power grid from the surfeit of energy-sucking megaprojects. This year, in addition to asking traditional questions about project attraction, capital investment, job creation and services, we asked one extra question:
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