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Improving Technical Assistance “STEAB Discussion/Ideas ”

Improving Technical Assistance “STEAB Discussion/Ideas ”. August 13, 2004 Mark Bailey/Charles Hemmeline Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program. What Do WIP Customers Want?. Align EERE assistance with "key market drivers" Make programs flexible to accommodate changing market conditions

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Improving Technical Assistance “STEAB Discussion/Ideas ”

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  1. Improving Technical Assistance “STEAB Discussion/Ideas” August 13, 2004 Mark Bailey/Charles Hemmeline Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program

  2. What Do WIP Customers Want? • Align EERE assistance with "key market drivers" • Make programs flexible to accommodate changing market conditions • Articulate clear and consistent messages • Make Program services/products more accessible • Institutionalize formal and informal feedback loops • Market analysis and key drivers should feed program planning and budget requests • Consolidate program assistance with similar target markets • Fund hardware to put projects in place • Streamline solicitation process

  3. Proposed Service Delivery Model

  4. Towards Products/Services and Markets Primary Delivery Channel: Regional Offices

  5. What is Technical Assistance? • Specialized technology, policy, planning, or financing assistance that is delivered to overcome market or action barriers. • Products and Services • Examples • Building Design • Commissioning • Alternative Fuels Analysis • Renewable Energy Portfolio Analysis • Code Interpretation

  6. TA Challenges • No overall system for delivering TA • Disparate set of deployment activities • Difficulty responding to customers with broad multi-sector needs. • Criteria differs for TA access depending on program, i.e. Rebuild, Clean Cities • Crosscutting issues pose significant challenge • No explicit system for transferring best practices among programs. • There are gaps in program offerings.

  7. Technical Assistance Team • Charged to establish a single, flexible TA delivery mechanism that effectively meets the needs of EERE customers and stakeholders • Initially focused on Clean Cities, Rebuild America, Building Energy Codes, and the State Technical Assistance Pilot (TAP)

  8. Objectives • Better serve customers with broad multi-sector or multi-technology needs. • Fill the gaps between current programs by incorporating a broader network of resources.

  9. TA Model

  10. Customer Feedback on 1st Report • Criteria • Management Team • Packaging – Marketing vs Delivery • Measuring Success • Role of the States • Customized TA is Valued

  11. TA Funding Sources Thousands of Dollars

  12. Next Steps • Schedule • April 26, 2004: Kickoff meeting • July 6: 1st interim report posted for comment • August 12: 2nd interim report posted for comment • August 27: Feedback comments due • September 3: Final report presented to EE • Implementation • Phase I – FY05 – TA for existing prog merge. Providers secured. • Phase II – FY06 – Bundled services offered to customers, piloted in specific Regions/States. Expand to include other EE assistance.

  13. We Want Your Feedback! • Now? • Later • www.eere.energy.gov/wip/tafeedback.html • Send comments to tafeedback@ee.doe.gov

  14. Background

  15. Current Gateway Brand Model Energy Star Weatherization Assistance Rebuild America Inventions & Innovation Clean Cities International And Tribal Activities State and Gateway Programs State Energy Program Building Energy Codes

  16. State Technical Assistance Pilot (TAP) • DOE’s National Labs are a tremendous resource for states. • Quick response time on technical assistance critical to states. • State Energy Offices key partners. • Four eligible funding categories: - system benefits charges or other rate-payer funded utility efficiency and renewable programs, - renewable or efficiency portfolio standards, - use of renewable clean energy technologies to address air emissions, or - renewable energy on public lands.

  17. Technical Assistance Examples • Determine feasibility of wind power on state trust lands to supply all electrical power needs of state government facilities. • Determine whether use of renewable energy at the state office complex, consisting of 15 buildings, is practical, economical, and appropriate.

  18. Crosscutting • EERE / Air Quality Integration • Joint DOE & EPA initiative to quantify emission reductions using EERE technologies for air quality non-attainment areas and fit these efforts into State Implementation Plans. • Pilot Kick Off meeting in Chicago at the National Air Innovation Conference, August 11 • Planning Assistance • FY05 Pilots

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