For economic developers · Indiana LEDOs and REDOs
Our gift to you is a free county energy program your manufacturers will thank you for. And, it’s designed to help you address three real pain points of Indiana LEDOs and REDOs
The problem
IEDA/Purdue 2024 survey of 58 Indiana EDOs · and our own read of all 92
The voice gap
44%
of Indiana EDO effort goes to retention and expansion: the profession’s biggest time bucket, and the least-published thing it does. We read every Indiana EDO’s website this year. Most county news channels have been dark for a year or more.
Your voice should be a consistent part of your county’s business news cycle.
The visit gap
80%
of growth comes from the businesses you already have. That’s the EDC doctrine. So you visit. The strongest BR&E programs in the state bring a funded program to every visit. Most organizations have nothing to bring, and no dataset to come back with.
You should be empowered to arrive with a gift and leave with a standing agenda.
The board gap
50 of 58
Indiana EDOs run on one to five people. Your board meets quarterly; your wins take years, and half are under NDA. Boards do not defund bad work. They defund invisible work.
For a small staff doing big things, reporting wins and renewing funding should be easy.
If you take the time to learn about the daily realities of Indiana’s LEDOs and REDOs, you’ll be inspired by the work they do and how they do it. We designed this program to help in three specific ways: amplify your voice, provide a retention tool, help you create and report wins to your board.
TEG Daily: Make your voice a consistent part of your county’s business news
We monitor the whole state for the news that impacts Indiana manufacturers: new plants and expansions, supply chains and tariffs, workforce and labor, energy and utility decisions. We curate, write, and publish every weekday morning. Every story is tagged by county. When a story impacts the manufacturers in your county, we think your opinions and insights should be front and center.
Local news. Your county.
1 · A voice
There’s nothing to start, no logins, and nothing to manage. We are already writing about the expansions, the supply chains, the workforce moves and the utility decisions in your county, every weekday. The stories are published, tagged, and sitting on your county’s page today. Here’s the friction-free way your voice becomes a consistent part of your county’s manufacturing news:
01 · We email you the story
This morning’s brief is about your county. Want to contribute? Reply with commentary, analysis, insights, or opinions. Your reply will be published as written, with your name on it at the top of the article. Replies are not mandatory, feel free to ignore this email.
02 · You hit reply and provide your perspective. That is the whole job
Three of our manufacturers called about this before lunch. We have asked the commission to give employers a planning window before anything changes.
03 · It publishes under your name
Sep 21, 2026 · Tippecanoe · Lake · Marion · 6 min
Indiana Semiconductor Fab Delay, NWI Coal Surcharge & Semiconductor Workforce Gap
SK hynix West Lafayette fab slips to 2029, NWI manufacturers absorb $174K/day in coal surcharges, and Indiana’s semiconductor workforce edge is under threat.
Daniel BurkePublished every dayYour reply, published · example
Your economic development corporation, on this story
Three of our manufacturers called about this before lunch. We have asked the commission to give employers a planning window before anything changes.
Ted HopkinsPresident, Example County Economic Development Corporation
Three developments landed today that connect directly to the economics of running a manufacturing facility in Indiana, and each one has a hard deadline attached.
SK hynix’s West Lafayette fab just slipped a full year to 2029. NWI industrial ratepayers are currently absorbing $174,000 per day in coal surcharges under a federal order that expires December 18, and a D.C. federal court just vacated a structurally identical order in Michigan. And a national analysis puts the U.S. semiconductor workforce shortfall at 157,000 workers by 2030, with Indiana holding a pipeline advantage that a proposed visa fee could eliminate before SK hynix ever opens its doors.
Published, bylined, permanent and searchable, on a property the manufacturers in your county already read every morning. Your retention work stops being something you report and starts being something they saw. No login. No deadline. No approval queue. Nothing to say today? Say nothing.
Corporate executives rank a location’s web presence and news among the top three influences on business-climate perception.
DCI, Winning Strategies in Economic Development MarketingWe’ve published 112 briefs across 50 Indiana counties. Let’s make your voice a regular part of your county’s manufacturing news.
2 · A retention tool
The doctrine says 80% of growth comes from the businesses you already have. So you visit. What do you bring? The strongest BR&E programs in Indiana bring a funded program to every visit. Now you have one.
Today, we provide this program to a small subset of our clients. But for you, we will make this high value program available to every manufacturer in your county, for free, as your gift to them. You become the named sponsor of the program and the beneficiary of the goodwill it earns, and not one thing about what a manufacturer receives changes.
Manufacturers Energy Grant Program
Sponsored by [Your EDC]
A free monthly 35-point audit of your electric bills for cost recovery and savings.
EDCs: sponsor this program and it carries your organization's name
Their utility bills them. We email and ask for a copy. They reply with the PDF. That is the whole of their involvement.
Every line read and run against 35 audit points and a rate calculator. Rate classification, riders, demand charges, taxes, and the errors that sit in bills for years.
One page, in their inbox. What was checked, what tied out, and anything that did not.
Every opportunity found is paired with the guide for capturing it. Not a library to go search. The one that applies.
It adds up month over month into one record they can put in front of a CFO.
This process does two things:
The visit kit
One link, on the table at every visit.
tac-nrg.com/your-county
We provide you a link to use for every visit you make. You can put it on your card, in your newsletter, on the printed leave-behind.
The standing agenda
Every monthly report they get, you get too.
A data-backed reason to sit back down with the same manufacturer every quarter, with numbers neither of you had before.
You never pick a vendor and never endorse a purchase. The program is free and no-obligation, so your endorsement stays neutral.
3 · A number for the board
Your best work is under NDA. Your biggest wins get announced by the region or the state. What is left for the board packet? Activity without numbers, and boards of bankers do not renew activity. The scorecard turns the program into board math, attributable only to you.
Quarterly county scorecard
Delivered before the meeting, every quarter. For your board, aggregates only, never plant-level specifics. Every number is countable: enrollments via your county page, dollars from validated line items, and the number of tactical assets delivered to help capture the savings or solve the problems identified.
The board slide, pre-built
Delivered before the meeting. Every time.
Your board slide and report, ready each quarter.
We built the infrastructure and we maintain the rhythm. There’s nothing for you to manage.
What you give
What you never do
Your structure, your name
A county EDC
A county EDC or LEDO sponsors under its own name. The classic case.
A combined chamber and EDC
One merged organization wears both hats. The sponsorship carries the name your members know.
A regional partnership
A regional org sponsors across its member counties, credited county by county.
Questions your board will ask
Tactical Energy Group. The program is a grant we fund and provide at no cost to Indiana manufacturers, and at no cost to you. It is our gift to economic developers.
No. The audit is free and no-obligation, and you never pick or recommend a vendor. Your endorsement stays neutral by design.
No. We ask; you reply when you have something to say. Nothing to say that day, say nothing. We cap how often we ask.
Nothing. The county page and the daily briefs keep running either way; leaving just takes your name off them.
Tell us the county and who to talk to. We build your county’s program page and send you the link. You approve the sentence and the logo. That is the whole setup.
92 county sponsorships. None claimed yet. The first organization in each county gets its name on the program, and founding partners get to be part of something new and exciting.
I write TEG Daily every morning because one of the most important things I can do as CEO of Tactical Energy Group is stay on top of all the forces that impact my customers most. I want to provide a useful resource to the market that reflects my own efforts to understand how their world works, what it is they actually need, and how I can best serve them. This program exists so the organizations closest to Indiana manufacturers, the LEDOs and REDOs, are the ones whose name is on the help.
Daniel Burke · Tactical Energy Group, South Bend
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The news, the enrollment form, the QR leave-behind. Live today, waiting for a sponsor’s name.
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