Cleaner hydrogen production hubs in California, the Pacific NW and the Appalachian region—of seven DOE picked last
year to negotiate hundreds of millions of
dollars in federal project support—are the first
to receive initial funding awards.
While disrupted supply chains, soaring material and labor costs and rising interest rates have hurled construction into choppy economic waters the last several years, the MidAtlantic’s specialty construction firms are starting to get their sea legs again.
When crews with Kokosing Construction Co. began a $209-million design-build contract—the largest of its kind in West Virginia—in 2015, they first had to build roads in order to build the actual road called Corridor H.
Form Energy plant on former W. Va. steel site would scale up novel approach to make batteries that can store intermittent energy longer, firm says, promising to "build strong relationships" with labor unions during construction.