Michigan Competitiveness Fund: Battery and Advanced Manufacturing Challenge

Michigan is the place to create the technology and build the products to decarbonize the world. Our state’s manufacturing prowess and talented workforce provide a launchpad for big projects that make the batteries, low-carbon fuels, and renewable energy we need to drive toward net zero carbon emissions. Michigan aims to lead the world in making an equitable transition to clean energy, creating and attracting the jobs of the future right here in our state. The products, expertise, and know-how that will be needed to adopt clean energy technology can be developed here and then exported around the globe. The time is now to build a world-leading clean manufacturing hub here in Michigan for two reasons: first, the Biden Administration is making unprecedented investments in infrastructure and climate to bring supply chains home; and second, Michigan has enacted groundbreaking clean energy legislation that paves the way to 100% zero-carbon energy by 2040. Projects for the challenge will be selected based on their ability to bring federal dollars home to Michigan, as well as: • Impact on creating good jobs, as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Good Jobs Initiative. • Impact in advancing the Justice40 goal of ensuring that 40 percent of the overall benefits of federal climate-related investments flow to disadvantaged communities. • Impact on advancing economic competitiveness in a key strategic sector.