PROGRESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP

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PROGRESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP

• Joint ASRED/SAAESD MeetingCorpus Christi,
  TexasApril 5, 2005
• Jim Powell
• Director
• Southeast Regional Office
• U.S. Department of Energy

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Partnership Opportunities

• NASULGC Agreement
• SEP Special Projects
• Omnibus Cooperative Agreements
• Inventions and Innovations Program
• STAC Rebuild America Initiative

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The Benefits of Partnership

• Mutual interests
• Common goals
• Cooperation
• Talents and expertise
• Funding
• Successful performance
• Transfer / commercialization

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• Making the Whole Greater
• Than the Sum of the Parts
• Partnering Between Organizations

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NASULGC Partnership

• Late 1990s timeframe
• EERE and NASULGC founders
• Public colleges and universities
• One roof concept
• Teaching, research and outreach
• Ties into existing national system
• Operates in every county in the U.S.

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Partnerships Pilot Projects

• In FY 2004 5 1-year projects developed
• Projects to expand access for energy researchers
• Provide use of extension capabilities of state
  universities and land-grant colleges.
• Results would benefit faculty and students
  through collaboration with federal energy
  researchers.

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Partnership Projects No. 1
Expanding the opportunities for cooperation and
communications between NASULGC and DOE/EERE
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• Faculty members who wish to submit resumes
• Send an email with resume attached to the
  address below.
• Identify the program(s) of interest in the
  subject line of the email.
• Save the resume as a document that contains the
  faculty members name.
• To Resumes_at_ee.doe.gov
• Subject Type here the Name of the Program(s)
  i.e. solar, geothermal etc. that is of interest
  to the faculty submitting the resume

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Partnership Projects No. 2
Use of Extension and outreach systems for the
dissemination and delivery of DOE/EERE products
and services
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Partnership Projects No. 3
Youth education in science and technology
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Partnership Projects No. 4
Engaging the research capacities of the
universities and state colleges
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Partnership Projects No. 5
Workshops at the DOE labs for scientists from the
NASULGC-affiliated institutions
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FY05 Objectives

• Enhancing EERE program impact.
• Institutionalizing extension outreach capacity.
• Increase public education about energy
• Expanding joint university/EERE lab
• workshops
• Develop methods to improve formal exchange of
  information

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To learn more about the DOE/NASULGC Partnership,
visithttp//www.ncfap.org/specialprojects/
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State Technologies Advancement Collaborative

• Formed by DOE, NASEO and ASERTII
• Signed an agreement on November 14, 2002
• Established a State Technology Advancement
  Collaborative (STAC)
• Mechanism whereby States and DOE can move energy
  research, development, demonstration, and
  deployment forward using an innovative project
  selection and funding process

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A growing network of community-driven voluntary
partnerships Fosters EERE in commercial,
government and public-housing buildings Overcomes
market barriers that inhibit use of the best
technologies
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Rebuild America 531 partnerships, 800 projects
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STAC Plans for the Rebuild America Program

• STAC and DOE in process of transferring
  management of Rebuild America to STAC.
• Transfer expected to complete by end of April
  2005.
• Final FY05 Appropriations contained the following
  language  The Rebuild America program is to be
  managed by the State Technologies Advancement
  Collaborative.
• Programs mission will continue.

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Working with STAC
If you are interested in working with STAC,
contact your State Energy Office

• ALABAMA Terri Adams, 334-242-5292
• ARKANSAS Chris Benson, 501-682-1370
• FLORIDA Alexander Mack, 850-245-2535
• GEORGIA Elizabeth Robertson, 404-656-3887

• KENTUCKY John Davies, 502-564-7192
• LOUISIANA Mike French, 225-342-1275
• MISSISSIPPI Kenneth Calvin, 601-359-6618
• NORTH CAROLINA Larry Shirley, 919-733-1889

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Working with STAC
If you are interested in working with STAC,
contact your State Energy Office

• OKLAHOMA Brenda Williams, 405-815-5352
• PUERTO RICO Dr. Javier Quintana, 787-224-8777
• SOUTH CAROLINA John Clark, 803-737-8039
• TENNESSEE Brian Hensley, 615-741-2994

• TEXAS William (Dub) Taylor, 512-463-1931
• VIRGIN ISLANDS Bevan Smith, 340-773-1082
• VIRGINIA John Warren, 804-692-3216

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EERE Project Management Center

• A virtual hub
• Created for management of EEREs 11 programs.
• Composed of EERE field organizations
• Working to ensure U.S. industry captures lions
  share of global market for energy and
  environmental technologies
• Our Nations energy portfolio is part of this
  market..

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Special Projects Solicitation

• Annual competitive solicitation
• All EERE technologies eligible
• 2005 funding is 14.7 million
• FY05 solicitation now available

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INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS PROGRAM

• Assistance provided at three levels
• Up to 50,000 for technologies in early-stage
  development
• Up to 250,000 for technologies approaching the
  point of prototype
• and up to 500,000 for technology demonstrations

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Grant Writing Tutorials

• EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial http//www.epa.gov/seah
  ome/grants/src/grant.htm
• Foundation Center Proposal Writing
  http//fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
• Corp. for Public Broadcasting Basic Elements of
  Grant Writing http//www.cpb.org/grants
  /grantwriting.html

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ANY QUESTIONS?

• Jim Powell
• 404-562-0599
• jim.powell_at_ee.doe.gov
• www.eere.energy.gov/regions/southeast