With $1.5 billion in facility-specific investment and 1,500 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The energy context.
Manufacturing the equipment of the energy transition — solar modules, transformers, switchgear, electrolyzers, advanced batteries — has become a domestic industrial priority in its own right. The Inflation Reduction Act's §45X advanced-manufacturing production credits make the unit economics workable at US labor costs. Transformer shortages are now a meaningful constraint on the broader power-grid expansion.
At a glance
- Company
- Corning
- Industry
- Energy
- Location
- Richland Township, Michigan
- Investment
- $1.50B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 1,500
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Feb 27, 2024
- Operations began
- 2025
- Added to tracker
- Sep 6, 2026
Official references
- Primary source https://www.michiganbusiness.org/press-releases/2024/02/corning/
- Corning expansion announcement https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2025/04/corning-expands-advanced-manufacturing-capacity-to-meet-increased-demand-for-US-made-solar-products.html
- Corning Q1 2026 operational confirmation https://investor.corning.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/Corning-Announces-Strong-First-Quarter-2026-Financial-Results-1/default.aspx
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