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Mitsubishi Electric will invest US$143.5 million to retrofit its Maysville, Kentucky factory to make variable-speed heat pump compressors, with production targeted for October 2027 and initial annual capacity of 1,000,000 compressors. The U.S. Department of Energy is providing a $50 million award.
Bitzer Scroll will use a federal grant of more than $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to increase production of scroll compressors for electric heat pumps at its DeWitt, New York factory. The firm has committed nearly $6 million in matching investment and plans to create 20 jobs.
Gradient, a startup making window-mounted heat pumps, is in line for $17.5 million in federal funding to establish a Michigan plant employing about 300 people with capacity of 100,000 units a year. The final contracts have not yet been signed.
Johnson Controls plans to expand heat-pump manufacturing at three U.S. plants with more than $33 million in federal funding plus matching funds, pushing output above 200,000 units a year and creating close to 1,000 jobs. Final contracts with the Department of Energy were not yet signed.
