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Growing Chicago’s Clean Energy Economy
On Tuesday, May 11th, the Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center co-presented Growing Chicago’s Clean Energy Economy. The conference drew a sold-out audience of clean energy business, financial and civic leaders from the Chicago area to discuss what Chicago needs to do to advance its leadership of the clean energy economy.
As a financial powerhouse located near vast wind and solar resources and Midwest manufacturing hubs, Chicago is well-positioned to be a leader in the clean energy economy. Chicago can take advantage of growing renewable energy and clean tech industries and continue to lead in this growing green economy of future. To learn more about the discussions and presentations at the event, please visit the links below; or submit materials here.
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Chicago Gets Geared Up For Electric Vehicles
With plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles ready to hit the marketplace, an article in the Chicago Tribune looks at whether Chicago is ready to support electric vehicle charging. The Chicago area is the third largest auto market in the nation, and with low-carbon sources of electricity available, it’s ideal location to use an plug-in vehicles to reduce global warming pollution.
Supporting plug-in vehicles means providing public charging stations, streamlining the process to install home charging stations and providing incentives to reduce the amount of pollution created by charging plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner told the Tribune, “We need to get the right policies in place, moving forward, soon. And when I say soon, I mean get them in place over the next six months to a year.” ELPC is working with the public and private sectors in Chicago to maximize the environmental benefits of plug-in vehicles.
Read the article here Learn more about plug-in vehicles at elpc.org/plug-ins
On Tuesday, May 11th, the Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center co-presented Growing Chicago’s Clean Energy Economy. The conference drew a sold-out audience of clean energy business, financial and civic leaders from the Chicago area to discuss what Chicago needs to do to advance its leadership of the clean energy economy.