Energy Working Group Framework Best Practices

Utility
Sectors	Utility
Contact	Pete Tseronis
Topics	Communications Networks Interfacing with City Services and Utilities Smart Grid Smart Lighting Smart Waste Smart Water Understanding Utility IoT and Smart Cities Financing Best Practices

Authors

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Starter Guide

We are excited to share with you the trajectory, vision and intent of our Energy SuperCluster. First and foremost, we would like to make a few statements:

• We want you to submit a Success Story Submission (S3) via the link: www.bit.ly/escs3, to become a member of our SuperCluster.
• Submitting a S3 generates and delivers an Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR) to you via email that gives you insights and recommendations for partners and clients.
• You can view ESRs of existing members in our public folder: www.bit.ly/escpublic.

The big idea is, we believe our SuperCluster Leadership Team will not decide the fate of energy innovation in our world, we believe that we all will. To this end we aim to achieve together:

• A collection of Success Story Submissions (S3) of energy innovation projects from across the world to identify patterns, themes, lessons and practices that get shared publicly as a Living Blueprint, in addition to exporting Energy SuperCluster Reports (ESR) back to members who submit S3s.
• Success Story Submissions (S3) totaling (100) by December 31st, 2017, (250) by end of 2018, and (500) by end of 2019. To this date (August 24th, 2017), we have a total of (45) S3s collected.
• An Average Scalability Factor of 25x by 2019 compared to the current Average Scalability Factor of 2x based on the S3s collected.
• A model where projects are 75% revenue funded by 2019. According to our current S3s, 36% of energy innovation projects are grant funded, 27% privately funded, 15% city funded, and only 8% revenue funded.
• To grow the network of the deployment cities in our network from (28) cities to (100) cities by 2019 for energy innovation projects.
• To work with universities to have their students operate our SuperCluster.
• To work with partnering organizations and companies to create an automated platform for Success Story Submissions (S3), Matchmaking (MM) and Blueprinting.

Ingredients

Success Story Submission (S3)

An energy innovation project submission to the Energy SuperCluster to receive an Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR), join as an official member of our SuperCluster, and receive Matchmaking (MM) services to individuals and organizations in the network. Submit an S3 here: www.bit.ly/escs3

Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR)

A PDF document that submitters of Success Story Submissions (S3) receive that includes an exported format of their Organization Profile, Success Story, Insights Dashboard (ID), Partner Recommendations, Clients Referrals and Actions. View ESRs here: www.bit.ly/escpublic

Warm Introductions

Primary benefit of being a member of the SuperCluster by submitting a Success Story Submission (S3). The ability to request a warm introduction via email from our team to anyone in our network to spur discussion, opportunities and projects. Request a Warm Introduction here: www.bit.ly/escintro

Matchmaking (MM)

A system that encodes Success Story Submissions (S3) that match individuals and organizations together in the form of Partner Recommendations and Client Referrals.

Partner Recommendations

List of recommended partners within our network that is included in the Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR) that our Matchmaking (MM) system generated for you.

Client Referrals

List of potential clients within our network that is included in the Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR) that our Matchmaking (MM) system generated for you.

Insights Dashboard (ID)

A living reference guide derived from the Living Blueprint of energy project categories (Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Distributed Energy, etc) that compare your project data with similar projects in network.

Living Blueprint

A living guide (and whitepaper) aggregating processed, formatted and referenceable Success Story Submissions (S3) to create and share a wealth of energy innovation best practices, lessons learned and insights to the public.

Committees

Members of the SuperCluster that are selected to review formatted and aggregated Success Story Submissions (S3) to apply expertise on qualitative and quantitative data to generate an updated Living Blueprint referencing system. Apply to the Committees here: www.bit.ly/escteam

Cities & Policy Committee

Members that provide expertise on energy innovation as it applies to governmental functions, regulations, policy and other civic challenges.

Technology & Data Committee

Members that provide expertise on energy innovation as it applies to technology solutions, technical applications, data science and other technical challenges.

Finance & Business Model Committee

Members that provide expertise on energy innovation as it applies to financing projects, business model development, scalability and other monetary challenges.

Blueprint Factory

The complete blueprinting production system that includes all core functions such as the processing of Success Story Submissions (S3), Committees, Insights Dashboard (ID), Matchmaking (MM) System, and production of Energy SuperCluster Reports (ESR).

Mavens Team

Team members that recruit members to the SuperCluster via Success Story Submission (S3). Join the team here: www.bit.ly/escteam

Blue Team

Team members that process Success Story Submissions (S3), review data via Committees, produce Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR), match individuals and organizations through the Matchmaking (MM) system, and operate the entire SuperCluster. Join the team here: www.bit.ly/escteam

Connectors Team

Team members that deliver Energy SuperCluster Reports (ESR) to submitters of Success Story Submissions (S3) and make warm introductions to member requests. Serves also as a community manager. Join the team here: www.bit.ly/escteam

Energy Innovation Incubator

The definition of what our SuperCluster is with the purpose of advancing our network of energy innovators to spur market transformation of energy consumers to become energy prosumers towards a sustainable and resilient future in our world.

2016 NIST Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) Expo in Austin, TX

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Utility SuperCluster’s First Working Session in Atlanta, GA, March 2017

Energy SuperCluster Working Group and Breakout Session in Atlanta, GA, March 2017

About the Energy SuperCluster

The Energy SuperCluster is embedded in the Utility SuperCluster of the NIST Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) Network. We are a cross-sector consortium of city governments, universities, industry leaders and community-based organizations on a mission to advance energy innovation in cities across the globe. Our SuperCluster believes our leadership team alone will not decide the fate of energy innovation in the world; we believe that we together will. In order to achieve this, our primary function is to recruit and collect Success Story Submissions (S3) of energy innovation projects from around the world. We process these success stories through our Blueprint Factory to create a referenceable data- driven Living Blueprint. Through this Living Blueprint, we include a review system by Committees, Insights Dashboard (ID) that compares and contrasts S3 projects with related success stories, and a Matchmaking (MM) system that recommends partners and clients within our network. The deliverable we send back to the individual or organization that submitted a Success Story Submission (S3) is an Energy SuperCluster Report (ESR) which includes the Insights Dashboard (ID), Partner Recommendations and Client Referrals. Once the ESR has been delivered, members can request warm introductions to anyone within our network that have also submitted S3s as a matchmaking service to spur discussion, opportunities and projects. The aim is to create more projects in our network to further understand best practices, increasing the scalability factor of energy innovation in our cities.

Leadership Team

As of August 24th, 2017, the current roster of organizations in our leadership team includes:

• AT&T
• City of Atlanta
• City of Portland
• City of San Leandro
• Clemson University
• Dekalb County
• Everimpact
• FIWARE
• Innovation Intelligence Institute
• InterInnov
• KC Digital Drive
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Maalka
• OSIsoft
• PilotCity