Clean Industry Concierge
Clean Industry Concierge supports Illinois industry with energy assessments, technical assistance, and workforce training to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Funder: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Due Dates: —
Funding Amounts: No-cost energy audits and facility decarbonization assessments
Summary: Supports Illinois industry with technical assistance, workforce training, and specialized funding opportunities to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Key Information: Services support Illinois industrial and agricultural facilities, including municipal wastewater operations.
Description
The Clean Industry Concierge helps Illinois industry decarbonize through no-cost energy audits, facility decarbonization pathway studies, technical assistance, workforce training, and access to funding opportunities. Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, it is led jointly by the University of Illinois Chicago Energy Resources Center and the University of Illinois System’s EnergySense Resilience Center.
The program advances the “Kick-starting Industry Decarbonization” and “Expanding Climate-Smart Agriculture” priorities in Illinois’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan. Services include on-site energy, process efficiency, and decarbonization assessments, remote assistance, workshops, webinars, and stakeholder engagement. Specialized subprograms support ultra-low global warming potential refrigerants in commercial and industrial food refrigeration and community-based systems that capture and use biomethane to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
