Lawrence County awarded $30,000 Kentucky Power grant

By Lilly Adkins

BSN Associate Editor

ASHLAND — Kentucky Power awarded a $30,000 grant to Lawrence County to aid in economic development plans.

Lawrence County will use the grant to hire a consultant agency and other services vital to identifying viable sites for development and potential industrial property in the county, a release issued by Kentucky Power said.

The grant is funded through the Kentucky Power Economic Growth Grant Program.

“Our goal is to support programs that impact eastern Kentucky economic growth,” Kentucky Power external affairs manager Amanda Clark said in the release. “This funding will help Lawrence County build on its strengths and showcase its potential to support industrial businesses that will bring jobs and provide a successful future for that area.”

Clark said in the release that the grant was awarded in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the Big Sandy Power Plant.

“This grant was awarded just in time to celebrate the long history Lawrence County has had with the Big Sandy plant,” Clark said in the release. “We have much gratitude for the successful partnership the county has had with the plant all of these years.”

The Big Sandy Plant is located along U.S. 23 in Lawrence County and produces approximately 295 megawatts of natural gas electricity for Kentucky Power customers.

Grant applications are reviewed by a committee comprised of employees and delegates of the Kentucky Association of Economic Development and the Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet. More information is available at kentuckypower.com/development.