Despite opposition, dozens of clean-tech projects around the country are part one of the biggest experiments in industrial policy that the US has ever attempted.
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with employees as he tours the Lockheed Martins Pike County Operations facility in Troy, Alabama, on May 3, 2022. The papermill in Courtland is gone. The railcar factory in Cherokee too. Here in north Alabama, people are worn out from watching good jobs disappear.Which is why what’s happening these days off State Route 20 is so remarkable.
Despite the opposition, the First Solar plant and dozens of clean-tech projects around the country are part one of the biggest experiments in industrial policy that the US has ever attempted. Nobody knows for sure how it will play out in Alabama, which is embracing its new position on the southern fringe of the nation’s emerging Battery Belt.
More than 1,000 people had worked at the mill making paper for magazines, envelopes and office-copy machines. But all that came to an end a decade ago, when digital technology — and the prospect of a paper-less future — claimed the mill and all those jobs. According to the plans, the plant will span an area the size of roughly 40 football fields and create more than 700 jobs. It’s set to be the county’s largest employer when it opens late next year.
The factory is already paying off for residents. The county received a $1.5 million federal grant to improve roads and water services. First Solar also has paid about $1.4 million in school taxes. That money is being put toward a STEM lab, expanding classrooms and a career-tech center. An online poll by Bloomberg News and Morning Consult, conducted from Oct. 5 to Oct. 10, found voters in several swing states — Alabama isn’t one of them — trust Trump more than Biden on the economy. Most Alabama voters pulled for Trump in 2020 and, assuming he’s the 2024 GOP nominee, probably will again based on their track record.
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