SEEA Idea Bank

Someone once told me I need someone walking behind me catching all the ideas I throw out. So here’s the basket for all my random ideas of potential projects, collaborations, themes that I can’t hold in my head.

john silkey

SEEA’s research into energy and health overlap. Use this as inspo for talking with health companies

One of the challenges with this research is that we're largely dealing with a constellation of causes and a constellation of health effects. One to one causation will be near impossible, though common sense points to "of course there's a connection."

Potential low funding codes work-

-be present at key meetings

-share out those learnings to stakeholders

-collaborate with members to elicit their position on issues

-mine old SEEA codes work for new learnings to build on

-prioritize GA, FL, MS, LA

Fund by:

SEO’s?

DOE - supporting rural trades and manufacturers

The right director is a doer who can take a messy problem, make it legible, and help a team move from “we should” to “we did.” Strategy is often obvious. It’s the muscle to move the problem that is lacking.

From permanent equity

Think about this with new board members.

AI and DSR’s - facilitate conversations on basics of what it is, what are the big complex challenges you see, how might these intersect?

what are the conversations you’re having on AI right now?

-How might AI help you scale the deployment and predictability of DRS’s?

SEO Round table idea:

-share your bright spots right now? What’s working? What’s surprised you in a good way?

What opportunities do you see in your state now? What’s in your way of doing it? What info from your peers would help? How can SEEA help?

Utility round table ideas:

-hear about other programs in the region including HERO - what did we learn from HERO 1.0 to 2.0"?

Cox Clean Tech Accelerator - working to build new companies by helping with commercialization in hopes they move here and build here

Needs:

Exposure to potential customers

Amplification

Connections

SEEA’s angle on a collab:

—connecting our members to innovation

-economic development

Ideas:

-present at summit or Miguel as part of a working group so he can

Key piece of mature economic engine - rather than giving ever larger tax breaks and incentives to recruit from out of region, invest in local startups, building new companies and industries.

Don’t do what pittsburgh did, waiting decades to choose healthcare as its new industry.

Industrials - get utilities to look at the capacity savings of SEM programs

Help industrials rethink what community impact looks like to them and include energy use for their workers at home.

SEEA -we want to help you be successful here, including thinking about what success here means and looks like. Jobs, yes, but what else up and down stream?