May 2020 Newsletter

Table of Contents Contact Us 1) All-electric plane takeoff Grant County Economic Development Council 2) Working grants 6594 Patton Blvd NE | Moses Lake, WA 98837 | Phone 509.764.6579 [email protected] | [email protected] 3) Business Impact Webinar [email protected] | [email protected] Groundbreaking all- electric plane first takeoff in Moses Lake

These planes do have some drawbacks, however. The range of the plane went from roughly 1,200 miles to around 100 miles with an electric engine. The engines simply are not as powerful for these types of durations.

The company understands that progress on the range will be made, albeit slowly. Advances in battery Source: magniX capacity and power happen often. There are a variety of options that are in development, such as A Seattle-based electric motor manufacturer, magniX, sulfur and hydrogen options. However batteries end up teamed up with Harbour Air to fit a Cessna Grand going, magniX says they are ready for wherever the Caravan 208 with a 750-horsepower zero-emissions science decides to go and batteries will be able to be motor and they recently conducted their first test lake used in their planes regardless of what they are made in Grant County’s Moses Lake Airstrip. out of. The CEO of magniX, Roei Ganzarski, says this is just The company is also not alone, with companies such the first step and that their company hopes to continue as Ampaire, Lilium, Embraer and Pipstrel going forward developing fully green engines for airplanes that could with all-electric plans. NASA is also testing their eventually power larger commercial airliners. experimental all-electric tech. Not only do these planes not require fuel, the absence While the airplane range was drastically reduced, the of a fuel engine helps reduce maintenance times and reduction in airline pollution is a great first step and costs. These costs could even be reduced by as much this is an historic event to be sure! as 80 percent. Their hope at magniX is for these low-cost engines to enable smaller airports of less-popular regions to create transportation that may not be available with our traditional cost airplanes.

May 2020 Newsletter Page 2 Working Washington Small Business Emergency Grants Washington State Department of Commerce Governor Jay Inslee, coupled entity going forward as with the WS Department of we work to distribute these Commerce, have rolled out a funds to the grantees. Working Washington Small Business Emergency Grant While many businesses were program for businesses not able to receive grants, affected by COVID-19. there were several businesses in Grant County The grants are reimbursable who decided they did not funds covering a variety of necessarily need the grant expenses. These grants and opted to return the helped provide nearly twenty money they were approved small businesses in Grant for in order for it to go down County alone with the list to businesses who reimbursement for expenses might be in more need of during this difficult time. help! This is the type of behavior that we see in our The Grant County EDC was community that makes Grant among a committee of County special! individuals from within Grant County to help review Washington State Department of Commerce applications and will be the

The Grant County EDC is going virtual!

We at the Grant County can be used to great effect Economic Development during our age of social Council have been looking distancing. for ways to bring business to our county as efficiently as We want people to remain possible during the COVID- interested in Grant County even 19 crisis. if they are uncomfortable with traveling at this time, and this One of the ways we have is the perfect way to do it! found to help people look for locations is the idea of Grant County EDC hopes to developing virtual site visits. have the opportunity to develop These visits involve these crafted videos and maps combining drone footage in the near future, and with 360-degree camera incorporate them into our video for potential website as well. businesses to find and virtually The setup, while involving a good “visit” an area at home from amount of technology, is not anywhere in the world. particularly difficult to create and

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