Huntersville company with EV-charging tech plans 205-job expansion

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Huntersville-based Atom Power Inc. is rolling out major expansion plans in its home area.

On Tuesday afternoon, the company announced its plans to add 205 new jobs in Huntersville by 2026, a move that would more than triple its N.C. workforce. Atom Power CEO Ryan Kennedy was joined by Gov. Roy Cooper and other local officials to formally unveil the plans at the company’s headquarters at The Park-Huntersville. The $4.2 million project calls for the expansion of Atom Power’s corporate headquarters and its research, development and manufacturing operations.

The announcement came after North Carolina’s economic investment committee approved incentives this morning for the company. The new jobs are expected to pay an average annual wage of $91,804, more than $10,000 higher than Mecklenburg County’s average. State incentives for the project are valued at nearly $1.6 million, according to the terms laid out by the committee.

“It’s important that this company is here and homegrown because we really have become a clean energy destination for a lot of these companies,” Cooper said at today’s announcement. “And we’ve got Atom Power who can talk to people about how well North Carolina works with our businesses and how much we support them, how we train workers for these positions. I’m excited they were able to expand here, because this company could have gone anywhere it wanted.”

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