The Campbell County Board of Commissioners granted a letter Tuesday pledging $176,000 from the county’s 2021 budget to Energy Capital Economic Development (ECED) for equipment costs at their coal innovation project center.
The commissioners voted unanimously in favor of the letter during their regularly scheduled meeting Jan.19, enabling ECED to secure around $3 million for the Wyoming Innovation Center (WyIC) using grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the Wyoming Business Council (WBC).
The grants will enable construction for the WyIC to begin and fulfill equipment needs further down the road.
It’s a solid step toward the development of WyIC, formerly called the Advanced Carbon Products Innovation Center (ACPIC), which was devised several years ago by ECED and the University of Wyoming (UW) with the idea of luring prospective companies looking to nurture and explore economic development projects to Campbell County.