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.
SEEA Idea Bank
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?
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
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-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
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."
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Think about this with new board members.
Industrials - do an SEM cohort.
Grab the capacity data as proof for our utilities to dive in and invest in it.
SEEA runs the cohorts
what if the utilities looked at all the big facilities on one feeder where a Data Center is going to go and offered SEM? Its a more surgical approach.
Questions for the utilities:
-can you look at the data for those customers already in an SEM/50001 program?
-what might it look like to do a 50001 cohort here?
-Cobb, Oglethorpe? JEA?
Utility round table ideas:
-hear about other programs in the region including HERO - what did we learn from HERO 1.0 to 2.0"?
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?