January 27, 2020 - DTECH202 Resilience Action Challenge

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WINNING PROBLEM STATEMENT:

How to prioritize decarbonization investments that result in broader societal benefits for our communities in the near term and build resilience and capacity for the future - Melissa Lavinson, SVP Pepco Holdings

Other statements in voted priority:

  • Innovative methods for financing cities sustainability & Resiliency Plans - Itai Dadon, Itron

  • create an actionable portfolio - Michelle Isenhouer Hanlin, Advisian

  • …accelerating the construction of a distributed green grid with broadly shared benefits. - Erik Svanholm, S&C Electric

  • The issue of silo-mentality thinking at the federal level and allow states and cities to harness clean-tech investment and we must also change global capital flows - Rob Powelson,

  • matching electric consumption to renewables / platform technologies for complex scenarios/transparency and integration to power grids - Doug McMahon, NYPA

  • Explore impacts/mitigations of critical infrastructure disruptions through multi-stakeholder exercises - John Barnet, NREL (tie)

  • we must serve for POLICY, PROCESS and PEOPLE - Chair Willie Phillips, DC Public Service Commission (tie)

  • how we collaborate to increase our influence on a complex and dynamic future - Rebekah Eggers, IBM (tie)

  • the establishment of inter-organization climate change impact scenarios by which we can design the necessary inter-organization response. - Phil Nevels, Exelon (tie)

  • lack of prioritization for resilient renewable power is causing damage to the environment, economically harming the public and business owners, and risking the lives of all affected by mission critical power needs - Allan Abela, EPC Power


WINNING 12-MONTH ACTION PLAN: Table 3

12 Month: Resilience Planning Scoring Model - released to the market and investment community

M1: Establish statistically valid survey to citizens

M2: Build scoring methodology

M3: Present methodology to top 10 US cities

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- HG Chissell and Team