CREF 2018: Island Resiliency Action Challenge

Intended outcomes:

Collaboratively triage regional resiliency challenges
Identify the most critical immediate action we must challenge ourselves to accomplish within 12 months.
Leverage this action challenge into a collaborative, stakeholder engagement platform to assist other island communities and other extremely vulnerable cities

Winning Problem Statement:

The most urgent problem to collectively address regarding regional resiliency is:

Determining where to invest scarce human & capital resources while improving, reliability, effective emergency response and driving a new economy transition.
- David Gumbs, CEO ANGLEC

Winning 12 month action:
Table 9: Deliver a Critical Infrastructure Safeguard Plan within 12 months.

Within 60 days: Commission a Feasibility Study to identify, prioritize critical safeguards.
Within 90 days Commission a cost analysis of these priority safeguards and identify possible sources of funding.

>>Current Task Force Co-Leads:

Clark Wiedetz Director Microgrids, Siemens - clark.wiedetz@siemens.com
Barbara Vargas, Legal and Drafting Services - barbara.vargas@ldsdrafters.com

***Runner up and contender for CREF2019 IRAC Impact Award:

Table 10: Launch the Caribbean Energy Resiliency Corps within 12 months

Within 60 days: Establish the CERC working group
Within 90 days: Finalize plan and agreements for CERC structure, approach, and funding.

>>Current Task Force Co-Leads:

Jennifer DeCesaro, US Department of Energy, Director, Technology-to-Market jennifer.decesaro@ee.doe.gov
Alisa Kreynes, Program Leader - US DOE: Better Communities Alliance, Hatch alisa.kreynes@hatch.com

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