You cannot make up this Idiocracy.
A new electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas will require so much energy that a coal plant slated for closure will now remain open, plus it will be expanded. Panasonic is building a $4 billion EV battery factory in De Soto, Kansas. The upcoming lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility is expected to start mass production of EV batteries by the end of March 2025.
Despite the massive $4 billion price tag for the 2.7 million square foot Panasonic facility, the Japanese company is "poised to get as much as $6.8 billion from provisions in last year's federal Inflation Reduction Act," according to a July report from the Kansas City Star. The Japanese company is expected to receive state and local incentives pushing the total financial incentives to as much as $8 billion.
This massive EV battery factory will require enormous amounts of power. So much energy, in fact, that a local coal-fired plant will be expanded and the life of the plant will be extended.
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The EV battery factory will reportedly require between 200 and 250 megawatts of electricity to operate roughly the same amount of power needed for a small city.
The plant in Lawrence is owned by Evergy an investor-owned energy company servicing more than 1.6 million customers across Kansas and Missouri.
A new electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas will require so much energy that a coal plant slated for closure will now remain open, plus it will be expanded. Panasonic is building a $4 billion EV battery factory in De Soto, Kansas. The upcoming lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility is expected to start mass production of EV batteries by the end of March 2025.
Despite the massive $4 billion price tag for the 2.7 million square foot Panasonic facility, the Japanese company is "poised to get as much as $6.8 billion from provisions in last year's federal Inflation Reduction Act," according to a July report from the Kansas City Star. The Japanese company is expected to receive state and local incentives pushing the total financial incentives to as much as $8 billion.
This massive EV battery factory will require enormous amounts of power. So much energy, in fact, that a local coal-fired plant will be expanded and the life of the plant will be extended.
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The EV battery factory will reportedly require between 200 and 250 megawatts of electricity to operate roughly the same amount of power needed for a small city.
The plant in Lawrence is owned by Evergy an investor-owned energy company servicing more than 1.6 million customers across Kansas and Missouri.
