Webinar – Advanced Industrial Zones to Bolster Regional Economic Development

Growth in the electro-industrial sector—encompassing technologies like batteries, grid equipment, and electronics manufacturing—presents an opportunity for immense regional economic growth, but only if places have the physical infrastructure, procedures, and public buy-in to support it. Regions that offer shovel-ready sites, permitting clarity, and quick pathways to grid interconnection will be better poised to win this opportunity. Those with the coordinating power and governance structures to align all these assets will do even better.

This webinar from RMI features speakers well-versed in both the theory and implementation of site readiness, industrial zones, and other location-specific development models. Through emerging concepts like Advanced Industrial Zones, we will explore how place-based economic development tools can be adapted to meet the needs of the electro-industrial era.

This webinar was supported by the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center.

About the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center

The New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center is building a global network of researchers, policymakers, and private sector stakeholders who are advancing new energy industrial strategies. Advanced energy technologies are essential to build the industries of the future. We develop policies and approaches designed to harness the potential of advanced energy systems to build a nation’s most strategically important industries — such as defense, AI, semiconductors, and more — as well as the clean energy industries themselves.