$6 Billion in Funding for De-Carbonizing Manufacturing

The Department of Energy announces $6.3 billion in funding to accelerate decarbonization projects in the country’s top polluting manufacturing sectors.

Grants will be awarded to early-stage commercial scale projects in industries including iron and steel, chemicals and refining, and food and beverage. The industrial sector makes up nearly a quarter of the U.S.’s carbon footprint. 

Ohioans on manufacturing payrolls earned an average of $67,000 as of 2021 (the most recent year available) — and an average of almost $31 an hour as of October 2022.

Ohio manufacturers, however, face a shared challenge: a critical labor shortage, pervading all stages of manufacturing, from engineering to production,. This labor shortage will grow as technology advances and requires higher levels of training.

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