This EDA investment supports the 2025 clean tech economy coalition (ctec), led by mhub in chicago, with their proposal to accelerate the development of a new clean tech industry cluster in the midwest

This $500,000 project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's Economic Adjustment Assistance program will support the 2025 Clean Tech Economy Coalition's efforts to accelerate development of a new clean tech industry cluster in the Midwest region. Led by Mhub in Chicago, the 19-member coalition will pursue six independent but related clean tech projects from December 2021 to December 2023. These projects range from electrical vehicle testing and infrastructure to innovation and workforce training opportunities in Chicago's South Side to increase access and opportunity in the clean economy for the region's Black and brown communities. The funding will support the coalition's work to develop local clean tech applications and trade, rapidly deploy critical infrastructure, and coordinate workforce development to establish an end-to-end regional supply chain.

The 19-member coalition aims to support the development of technologies for local applications and trade, rapid rollout of critical infrastructure, and coordinated workforce development to support an end-to-end regional supply chain. If provided an implementation grant, coalition will pursue six independent-but-related clean tech projects, ranging from electrical vehicle testing and infrastructure to innovation and workforce training opportunities on chicagos south side to increase access and opportunity in the clean economy for the regions black and brown communities. The employers in BIO-innovation were founded there decades ago and grew to be global leaders, including cargill, the mayo clinic, general mills, ecolab, medtronic, and land olakes. If provided an implementation grant