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We’re in the home stretch of 2025, and Delaware’s Nuclear Feasibility Task Force has its first members.

As we head into the final months of the halfway point of the ‘20s, Delaware’s ecosystem overall is seeing some major changes, including a leadership change at the Tech Council of Delaware and a new, bigger EDGE grant for STEM startups and small businesses.

Gov. Matt Meyer announced a state of emergency for food relief for the month of November as the federal government, shut down since Oct. 1, halted then reduced SNAP food benefits. The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services has set up the First State Food Relief Funds program, which will deliver a weekly food benefit directly to SNAP cards in the amount of a quarter of the full regular monthly payment. 

Also new: Corteva is moving to downtown Wilmington and Delaware Prosperity Partnership’s CEO is departing. 


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Eight members of the Delaware Nuclear Feasibility Task Force begin talks

The state of Delaware has launched the Delaware Nuclear Energy Feasibility Task Force to explore whether small modular reactors (SMRs) might be viable in the state. The task force was established through Senate Concurrent Resolution 18, sponsored by Sen. Bryant Richardson of Seaford. The group will assess everything from site suitability and grid integration to regulatory frameworks, economic impact and environmental implications. 

It had its first meeting on Oct. 27 at Legislative Hall in Dover.

Delaware currently imports the majority of its power generation; introducing SMRs would increase the amount of in-state power generation, as the state grapples with rising residential power bills and a proposed increase of large-scale data centers. 

Meyer appointed eight people to the Delaware Nuclear Energy Task Force, which will eventually have 25 members. The remaining 17 members will be a combination of legislative appointments from both parties, and people from the government and energy sectors.

The Task Force was formally established by Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 (SCR 18), passed on July 1. The task force’s final report is due in December.

The eight members are:

  • Jennifer Clemons – An associate teaching professor in Penn State’s Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
  • Andrew Cottone – Founder of  Aternium, a Delaware-based company working to advance the region’s clean energy future by producing safe, reliable, and affordable industrial hydrogen.
  • Robert DeNight – Vice president of Nuclear Engineering at PSEG
  • Anthony DePrima – The founding executive director of the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility, also known as Energize Delaware
  • Keith Goossen – A professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware
  • Peggy Schultz – A Delaware resident active in the League of Women Voters and the founder of People for Offshore Wind Energy Resource
  • Robert Wheatley – Former chair of the Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission
  • Martin Willis – A union boilermaker

Global agriscience company’s Chestnut Run offices moving to downtown Wilmington

200-plus high-paying  jobs will stay in Delaware as global agriscience company Corteva moves its Chestnut Run offices to downtown Wilmington.

Corteva started in 2018 as the agriculture division of DowDuPont in 2018, and spun out as a standalone company in 2019. While the company moved its headquarters to Indianapolis in 2022, it maintained a corporate office with more than 200 employees in Chestnut Run Plaza in the suburbs of Wilmington.

With the company’s Chestnut Run Plaza lease expiring at the end of the year, Corteva launched a regional site search for new office space for its Delaware team. The company worked with the Governor’s Office, the Mayor’s Office and Delaware Prosperity Partnership last spring to retain the company’s presence in Delaware.

“Corteva Agriscience has been a valued member of Delaware’s business community and innovation ecosystem since its founding here in 2018,” said Rodger Levenson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of WSFS Financial Corporation and co-chair of the DPP Board of Directors, in a press release. “Its decision to continue operating here reflects how being in Delaware is a significant benefit for companies like Corteva.”

Starwood Digital Ventures signs a labor agreement with Delaware labor unions ahead of project talks

As New Castle County and state energy regulators prepare to begin discussing potential restraints on the data center industry in coming weeks, the developer behind a controversial Delaware City project lined up a significant ally in the region’s labor unions.

Last week, Starwood Digital Ventures, which wants to build a 6 million-square-foot data center dubbed Project Washington, signed a project labor agreement that promises to use 20 local unions to build the campus, most of which are based in Delaware.

More moves:

  • Delaware has launched its Office of New Americans, and Rony Baltazar-Lopez was selected as inaugural director. (Stay tuned for more on this next week.)
  • Kurt Foreman will step down as CEO of Delaware Prosperity Partnership at the end of this month. He’s heading to lead Ithaca Area Economic Development in Ithaca, NY.
  • ChristianaCare and Onix Group are planning a new $70M, 92k-sq-ft inpatient rehab hospital in Newark, pending state approval.
  • Solenis opened its new Global Research Center at Wilmington’s CRISP campus.
  • Wilmington PharmaTech is continuing to expand with a $18 million investment from Curewell Capital.
  • Bayhealth will invest $250 million in “next wave” expansion in Dover & Milford.
  • Christen Linke Young was confirmed and sworn in as Secretary of the Delaware Department of Health & Social Services.
  • Timothy Vessel has been named president of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware. 
  • Dover’s Ally Nutra received a $476,140 grant from the Council on Development Finance for lab build-out/expansion.