2025 CLEAN TECH

CTEC includes 16 funded partners and additional supporting partners from across Illinois that seek to ensure Illinois emerges as a national and global leader in the clean tech economy in a way that promotes opportunity and environmental justice for all communities at the local level... CTEC partnering organizations are rallied around six major initiatives related to manufacturing and supply chain, workforce development, applied research, entrepreneurship and commercialization, and infrastructure in Illinois... CTEC was formed in 2021 in response to the U.S. Economic Development Administration BBBRC and has been selected as a Phase 1 finalist from a pool of 529 national applicants. It is the only finalist from the state of Illinois.