Metropolitan Seattle Climate Prosperity Strategy

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Metropolitan Seattle Climate Prosperity Strategy

• Climate Prosperity Project
• National Leadership Meeting
• San Jose, CA
• February 21, 2009

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Coordinating Organizations

• enterpriseSeattle (formerly the Economic
  Development Council of Seattle King County)
• King County Executive Office
• Trade Development Alliance

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Decision-makers

• Jeff Marcell, Executive Vice President and COO,
  enterpriseSeattle
• Jim Lopez, Director of Strategic Planning and
  Performance Management, King County Executive
  Office
• Bill Stafford, President, Trade Development
  Alliance

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Challenges and Opportunities

• Economic stimulus
• Transportation fuel savings
• Job creation
• Workforce talent development
• Greenhouse gas emissions reduction

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Goals and objectives

• Electrified fleets - Objective 1 Public and
  private institutions will collectively purchase
  PHEV conversion kits and electric vehicles in
  bulk
• Infrastructure - Objective 2 Public
  institutions will maximize the availability and
  use of park-and-ride facilities for electric
  vehicle charging infrastructure
• Legislation - Objective 3 Establish state,
  regional and municipal policies for electric
  vehicle-friendly land use and buildings
• Workforce - Objective 4 Public and private
  institutions will jointly develop an economic
  development and workforce plan for the electric
  vehicle industry
• Smart grid - Objective 5 Public and private
  institutions will jointly develop smart grid
  software and hardware

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Green Savings

• Transportation fuel savings
• Individual
• Aggregate
• R egional studies by the Puget Sound Partnership
  (PSP) and national studies by the National
  Research Council (NRC) have shown that a high
  percentage of the pollutants reaching our
  waterbodies are the result of transportation and
  much of that is related to automobile travel.
• These pollutants come directly from leaks of fuel
  and lubricants to the roadway, and indirectly
  from combustion particles going into the air and
  then falling back onto the land and then often
  washed in to waterbodies.

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Green Opportunities
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Green Talent

• Teaching government
• Apprenticeship programs
• Clean energy, urban form, smart grid technologies

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Strategic Planning Process Actions Underway

• enterpriseSeattle Clean Tech Cluster
• King County Executive Action Group on Climate
  Change
• Evergreen Fleet Initiative
• King County Electric Vehicle Report

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Future Actions

• State legislation for electric vehicle industry
  to prosper
• Spring 2009
• USDOT Urban Partnership proposal
• Spring 2009
• Federal funding requests
• 2009

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Assets and Advantages

• Thought leadership and political will
• Know-how in IT and climate action
• Track record of leveraging powerful partnerships
• Cutting edge clean vehicle investments
• Robust system of universities and community
  colleges
• Constellation industries in place

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Obstacles

• Relative lack of venture capital in the region
• State and local governments struggling with
  budget shortfalls

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Financing and Resources

• Potential federal funding
• In-kind resources from county government /
  regional public transit agency

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Public Outreach

• Clean Vehicles Now! Conference in September 2007
• Cascadia Institute annual conferences

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Advice and Assistance Needed

• Validation / support of federal funding requests
• Leverage and coordination of similar regional
  strategies