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 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.

Green Opportunities

Flexcars

Park-N-Ride Plug-In Stations

Transit-Oriented Development

Hybrid Busses

Tele-Work

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 2009USDOT Urban Partnership proposal

Spring 2009Federal 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