UTILITIES SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Thank you to our Utilities Partner for your commitment to strengthening communities and supporting economic development. Reliable infrastructure and innovative utility solutions are essential to attracting investment, supporting businesses, and improving quality of life. Your partnership helps bring together leaders from across the public and private sectors to share ideas, build connections, and advance strategies that create thriving, resilient communities. We appreciate your support and your dedication to powering the future of economic development.

Utilities Premier

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CoBank is one of the largest private providers of credit to the U.S. rural economy. We are a national cooperative bank, a proud member of the Farm Credit System with a mission to serve vital industries that are the backbone of rural America including agribusiness, power, water and telecommunications.

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Consumers Energy is Michigan’s largest utility and the nation’s fourth largest electric and natural gas utility. We serve 6.8 million customers in every Lower Peninsula county.

Consumers Energy delivers an exceptional, from-all-angles customer experience. We work with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, local economic development organizations and others as one team – Team Michigan – to ensure businesses say YES to Michigan as the best place to thrive.

Low- and no-cost construction and energy efficiency incentives keep upfront and ongoing energy costs competitive. Using a 20-year blueprint, we’re building a cleaner, greener Michigan. And we offer a best-in-class renewable energy program to help businesses power their sustainability goals. It’s all backed by our Reliability Roadmap – a $9 billion investment in reliability and resilience.

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Dominion Energy, headquartered in Richmond, Va., provides regulated electricity service to 3.6 million homes and businesses in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and regulated natural gas service to 500,000 customers in South Carolina. Dominion Energy is committed to expanding economic opportunities where we do business by powering the growth of large commercial and industrial customers. We are one of the nation’s leading developers and operators of regulated offshore wind and solar power and the largest producer of carbon-free electricity in New England. Our mission is to provide the reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day.

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Hoosier Energy is a generation and transmission cooperative serving 17 member-owned electric cooperatives across central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Through a 1,730-mile transmission network, Hoosier Energy delivers reliable, affordable power to approximately 760,000 member-consumers across 59 counties—supporting critical industries such as advanced manufacturing, agriculture, automotive, logistics, and plastics. With a diverse and forward-looking energy portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar, Hoosier Energy is built to meet the evolving demands of modern industry. Its experienced economic development team partners closely with local and regional organizations to offer flexible rates, infrastructure readiness, and tailored solutions that accelerate site selection and business growth. Hoosier Energy is committed to powering resilient communities and driving long-term economic success.

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For more than five decades, Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has provided low-cost, reliable electricity to Nebraskans. Because of our success in keeping rates affordable and ensuring reliability is among the best in the nation, we've helped our state become an attractive place to plant roots – not just for individuals, but for businesses, too.

NPPD is grounded in serving Nebraska's energy needs. We are respectful of the rich public power history in the state, yet we are mindful that the state's energy future is being defined by what we do each and every day. NPPD works in partnership with our public power partners to help serve more than an estimated 500,000 Nebraskans with retail or wholesale electric power and energy-related services. We serve 35 municipalities and 23 public power districts and/or cooperatives and 81 Nebraska communities at retail.

NPPD’s mission towards economic development is to help increase economic opportunities in Nebraska by helping prepare and strengthen communities while focusing on business retention, expansion, and attraction activities. Our goal is to have communities prepared for economic growth opportunities, working in conjunction with our public power and economic development partners across the state.

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The North Carolina Railroad Company is the one private railroad company that has been driving economic growth for North Carolina for more than 175 years. The company’s invaluable rail corridor spans 317 miles from the Port of Morehead City to Charlotte, connecting businesses and communities to global and domestic markets. Manufacturing, wholesale and logistics industries rely on the corridor daily. North Carolina Railroad offers strategic investment programs statewide. Since 2017, the company has provided $76 million in economic development grants to help generate nearly 18,000 jobs. The International Economic Development Council awarded North Carolina Railroad with the 2025 Excellence in Economic Development Gold Award. The company’s Back-on-Track program provided recovery grants post Hurricane Helene and was recognized in the Recovery, Resiliency & Mitigation category.