New knowledge from the Rhodium Group and MIT/CEEPR’s Clean Investment Monitor exhibits that clear know-how manufacturing funding in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia has hit its lowest level in practically three years.
Credit score: Keystone Analysis Middle
Established clear tech manufacturing funding within the area fell to $1.35 billion in This fall 2025 – a 21% decline from the height of $1.69 billion simply two quarters earlier. This represents the bottom quarterly funding since Q2 2023.
“These numbers inform a transparent story of missed financial alternative for Appalachia,” stated Diana Polson, senior coverage analyst at Keystone Analysis Middle. “Simply as our area was poised to develop into a hub for next-generation manufacturing, federal coverage modifications are pulling the rug out from below staff and communities which have been ready a long time for this type of funding.”
The decline is pushed primarily by collapsing battery manufacturing funding, which dropped from $1.2 billion in Q2 2025 to $910 million in This fall 2025. Zero-emission car manufacturing additionally declined from a peak of $483 million in Q3 2025 to $422 million by 12 months’s finish.
4 manufacturing tasks totaling practically $2 billion had been canceled within the area in 2024 and 2025: Enervenue battery undertaking in Kentucky (This fall 2024, $285 million), Ascend Parts SK Ecoplant battery undertaking in Kentucky (Might 2025, $66 million), Foxconn zero-emission car undertaking in Ohio (August 2025, $26 million) and Ford zero-emission car undertaking in Ohio (December 2025, $1.57 billion).
“Every canceled undertaking represents lots of or 1000’s of good-paying jobs that gained’t materialize in communities that desperately want them,” Polson stated. “The Trump administration’s elimination of the $7,500 EV tax credit score and accelerated phase-out of renewable power incentives by the One Large Lovely Invoice Act has created a cascading impact all through the manufacturing provide chain.”
The regional development mirrors nationwide knowledge exhibiting that personal development spending in manufacturing declined 11% between August 2024 and October 2025. This fall 2025 additionally set a file as the best quarter for canceled clear tech investments nationwide since monitoring started.
“Appalachia has the workforce, the infrastructure and the potential to steer America’s clear power manufacturing future,” Polson stated. “However that future requires secure, predictable coverage assist — not the boom-and-bust cycle we’re seeing now. Our elected leaders want to acknowledge that abandoning these investments means abandoning the financial revitalization our area has been promised for a lot too lengthy.”
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