$190 Million Clean Energy Project PAUSED In Gabe Evans’ District

Amprius Technologies announced it was no longer moving forward with a $190 million vehicle battery factory in Brighton, located in Colorado’s Eighth Congressional District.

Evans recently urged Senate Republicans to “mitigate” the damage his Tax Scam would cause – after Evans had already voted for it. Evans wrote the bill “jeopardizes ongoing development… and could… cancel energy infrastructure projects.”

Unfortunately for CO-08, Evans was right.

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Coloradans didn’t send Gabe Evans to Washington to scare away job creators and hike costs for families – but that’s exactly what he’s doing. Evans is a disgrace, and Coloradans will hold him accountable in 2026.”

In case you missed it…

• Amprius Technologies… will not move past the design stage on a $190 million vehicle battery factory at an empty warehouse in Brighton.
• Amprius and local and state officials announced in 2023 the company would convert more than 700,000 square feet of an Adams County warehouse to a battery maker with 332 jobs in the first phase over two years.
• The project was to employ a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
• The project losses are clearly part of a pattern in clean energy exacerbated by Republican plans to cancel many tax credits and subsidies… said Colorado Solar and Storage Association executive director KC Becker.
• Tariff whiplashes and changing policies on important material imports also complicate any business planning, Becker said.
• Eliminating the federal tax credit that makes rooftop solar affordable over time, as budget planners in the GOP majority want to do, will drop Colorado’s home solar industry and thousands of employees “off a cliff.”
• Internationally, the fast-changing U.S. policies are “ceding the ground on advanced manufacturing onshoring to other countries, because other countries are going to continue to move forward with investing in wind and solar,” Becker said.