Energy Working Group Framework Best Practices
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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.
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
- Scalable Strategies
- The Green Link Group
- University of Georgia
- University of Tennessee
- US Department of Energy
- ZipPower
Our leadership team currently consists of (3) Sub-Teams and (3) Committees:
- Mavens Team
- Blue Team
- Connectors Team
- Cities & Policy Committee
- Technology & Data Committee
- Finance & Business Model Committee
- You can find the definitions of each team in the Ingredients section above.
Mavens Team
- Mike Mihuc, Market Principal, Academic R&D, OSIsoft
- Billy Malone, Environmental Energy Manager, Dekalb County
- Lusenii Watson, SolSmart Consultant, City of Atlanta
Blue Team
- Derick Lee, Chief Architect, PilotCity
- Caroline Hays, Fellow, City of San Leandro
- Tianzhen Hong, Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Paul Wertz, Client Solutions Executive, AT&T
- Taylor Hill, Student, University of Georgia
- Romney Cola, Fellow, PilotCity
- Guneet Bedi, PhD Student, Clemson University Connectors Team
- Géraldine Quetin, Senior Consultant, InterInnov / FIWARE
- Scott Pomeroy, President & CEO, Scalable Strategies
Cities & Policy Committee
- Chair: Billy Malone, Environmental Energy Manager, Dekalb County
- Deborah Acosta, Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Leandro
- Matt Cox, Co-Founder, The Green Link Group
- Aaron Deacon, Managing Director, KC Digital Drive
- Katherine Hambrick, Project Coordinator, KC Digital Drive Technology & Data Committee
- Chair: Rajendra Singh, Professor, Clemson University
- Harry Bergmann, Data Tools Fellow, US Department of Energy
- Mike Mihuc, Market Principal, Academic R&D, OSIsoft
- Tianzhen Hong, Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Technology & Data Committee
- Chair: Mathieu Carlier, CEO, Everimpact
- Rimas Gulbinas, CEO, Maalka
- John Teeter, Chief Innovation Officer, Maalka