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Metropolitan Seattle
Climate Prosperity Strategy
Climate Prosperity Project
National Leadership Meeting
San Jose, CA
February 21, 2009
Coordinating Organizations
enterpriseSeattle (formerly the
Economic Development Council of
Seattle & King County)
King County Executive Office
Trade Development Alliance
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
Challenges and Opportunities
Economic stimulus
Transportation fuel savings
Job creation
Workforce talent development
Greenhouse gas emissions
reduction
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
Green Savings
Transportation fuel savings
Individual
Aggregate
Regional 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.
Green Opportunities
Hybrid
Busses
TransitOriented
Development
TeleWork
Flexcars
Park-NRide PlugIn Stations
Green Talent
“Teaching government”
Apprenticeship programs
Clean energy, urban form, smart
grid technologies
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
Future Actions
State legislation for electric vehicle
industry to prosper
Spring
USDOT Urban Partnership proposal
Spring
2009
2009
Federal funding requests
2009
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
Obstacles
Relative lack of venture capital in
the region
State and local governments
struggling with budget shortfalls
Financing and Resources
Potential federal funding
In-kind resources from county
government / regional public transit
agency
Public Outreach
Clean Vehicles Now! Conference in
September 2007
Cascadia Institute annual
conferences
Advice and Assistance Needed
Validation / support of federal
funding requests
Leverage and coordination of similar
regional strategies