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AMR PEMCO in Bluefield is considering expanding into advanced battery manufacturing. Photo courtesy AMR PEMCO
Regions June 30, 2021

Region hopes for jolt from batteries, electrification

Adam Wells is charged up about a plan to create a “battery and electrification economy” in Southwest Virginia. “This is the most exciting thing that I’m working on,” says Wells, Appalachian Voices’ Norton-based regional director of community and economic development. The environmental nonprofit led the effort that persuaded GO Virginia, the state-funded economic development ini[...]

Virginia Tech is testing whether Spot, a four-legged robot, can monitor progress at busy construction sites. Photo by Sarah Myers/Virginia Tech
Regions June 30, 2021

Va. Tech researchers make Spot go

Spot can’t dance. Well, Spot could, but you’d have to pay extra for that. “Spot out of the box cannot do all those tricks,” says Virginia Tech doctoral student Srijeet Halder. Spot is Boston Robotics’ $74,500 four-legged walking platform, a star of viral dancing videos that also has the ability to navigate stairs, avoid obstacles […]

Kentucky-based Edelen Renewables and Kansas City-based Savion plan to build a 700-acre solar farm in Buchanan County. Photo courtesy Savion and Dreamstime
Regions May 31, 2021

(Solar) powering the economy

A 700-acre solar farm on a former surface mine outside of Hurley will be more than it appears, according to Adam Edelen. “Buchanan County and the entire region of Southwestern Virginia intends to benefit from the digital economy rather than be a victim of it,” says Edelen, CEO of Edelen Renewables. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, Edelen’s […]

Jake Musick, owner of Riverbound Trout Farms, displays a rainbow trout raised at his farm in Russell County. Photo by Earl Neikirk
Southwest Virginia March 30, 2021

Aquaculture proves big catch for region

A Russell County native and a Singapore-based asset management firm are about to turn a corner of Virginia’s coalfields into an aquaculture center. Jake Musick’s Riverbound Trout Farms is building a processing plant in Russell County. Musick expects to begin shipping fish this fall. About a quarter mile away, straddling the Russell-Tazewell county line, Pure […]

This railroad trestle crossing the Shenandoah River marks one of the scenic areas hikers could see along the proposed Shenandoah Valley Rail Trail.
Regions January 29, 2021

Shenandoah eyes old rail line as trail to prosperity

Woodstock Mayor Jeremy McCleary has a vision. On a vacated railroad line that runs nearly 50 miles, from just outside Front Royal through Shenandoah County and down to the Rockingham County town of Broadway, McCleary envisions creating a trail for bicyclists, walkers and runners. The trail’s planned pathway wanders through Civil War battlefields, connecting to […]

Rocky Mount Town Manager James Ervin leads negotiations with Appalachian Power on behalf of several local governments.
Regions January 29, 2021

Power contract keeps third-party solar out of reach

More than 40 years ago, local governments in Appalachian Power’s service area banded together to negotiate rates. Now, Rocky Mount Town Manager James Ervin, chair of the steering committee that leads negotiations, says that’s worked out well. “We pay a rate that is considerably less than a comparable private sector business,” he says. But there […]

The show goes on for Barter Theatre at the former drive-in Moonlite Theatre.
Regions December 29, 2020

Barter Theatre hangs on with Moonlite shows

Abingdon’s Moonlite Theatre is on the National Register of Historic Places and in the lyrics of at least two country western songs, but the drive-in movie theater was closed for most of the last decade. When Katy Brown visited it last spring, “it was a wreck,” she recalls, “but I thought all we’d have to […]

Greg and Jennifer Bailey own Sugar Hill Cidery, part of a revitalized downtown Norton.
Regions October 27, 2020

Downtown Norton gets a glow-up

Like other coalfield communities coping with the downturn of its signature industry, Norton is working to reinvent itself, says City Manager Fred Ramey. This fall, the city’s three-year, $2.3 million downtown revitalization reached a “technical end, but our project is not over and we’ll keep going,” says Ramey, who spearheaded the Downtown Norton Revitalization Project. […]

Mark Mondy and Brandy Salmon head up Virginia Tech’s Link+License+Launch program.
Industries October 27, 2020

Out of the lab, into the market

Virginia Tech was born to promote business. The 1862 Morrill Act, which created land-grant universities including Virginia Tech, requires such universities to “teach such branches of learning as are related to … agriculture and the mechanical arts … to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes.” Tech and every other university that […]

Jonathan Boreyko and Brook Kennedy are developing a fog harp, a device to harvest water from fog.
Industries October 27, 2020

Virginia Tech’s proof-of-concept grants

It’s about gaps. Gaps between the uncertainties that exist and the uncertainties investors are willing to accept. Gaps between a working prototype and a mass-produced model. Gaps between what researchers produce and what the market wants to buy. Virginia tech’s proof-of-concept (POC) grants aim to help university researchers bridge those obstacles to commercializing their research. [&h[...]

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