Once Clean Energy Challenge finalists become former participants, CET designates their company as a "portfolio company". We track these companies closely and provide consulting services throughout the year to promote growth. 

Many of our portfolio companies continue to acheive along the spectrum of business acheivements, but a few in particular have had great news to share in the last few months - Intelligent Generation LLC, 75F, GoElectric, and Navitas. 

Today we said goodbye to one of our interns this summer. Tom O'Neil, together with Laura Padilla, George Jonson, and Griffin Johns were some of the best summer interns Clean Energy Trust has worked with. 

Tom wrote some thoughts about what it was like to work with CET this summer. Read below for a behind-the-scenes view of how we make the #cleantech magic happen. 

Today across the Twitterverse, people are celebrating #StartupDay2014. Startups are accelerating new innovations, creating jobs, and solving tough 21st century challenges every day. 

Bill Gates says it all!

Last Friday the national announcement of the Department of Energy's $3.2M investment in a network of national clean energy initiative was announced in Chicago. CET was proud to be awarded $745,000 in conjunction with NextEnergy in Michigan to further build out the Midwest clean energy ecosystem. 

To celebrate fathers, children, and families everywhere - we wanted to give you a peek inside some of the proud papas of CET and share how they think about clean energy development and the world we'll leave to future generations. 

This Earth Day, tell us what Clean Energy means to you.

We're so excited to launch our Clean Jobs Illinois report today to announce that there are 96,875 clean energy workers that are helping to power Illinois forward!