A WIRED Strategy for Enhancing Public/Private Partnerships

1. A WIRED Strategy for Enhancing Public/Private Partnerships Linda Fowler Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Institute of Standards and Technology US Department of Commerce Detail with Employment and Training Administration US Department of Labor (April 2006-April 2008) Purdue University April, 2008 NIST MEP

2. Three Interrelated Categories of Goals for Regional Innovation • Economic Development • Creating and expanding markets • Increasing competitiveness and innovation • Supporting entrepreneurship • Increasing investment • Talent Development • Assessing and Addressing Labor Needs • Creating high-skill jobs • Providing education and training for youth and adults • Community Development • Collaboration across government, business and education • Creating regional identity and attitudes to support collaboration NIST MEP

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4. WIRED: a new vision of integrated development An integrated education, workforce and economic development system, supported by entrepreneurial attitudes and highly skilled people, which leads to a dynamic economic platform that offers greater prosperity to regional citizens. NIST MEP

5. The WIRED Objective Expand employment and advancement opportunities for workers while simultaneously catalyzing the creation of high-skill, high-wage jobs through regional, integrated, innovation-based development. NIST MEP

6. Tremendous Variation • Specific Needs of Regional Economy • Regional Assets and Gaps • Regional Identity • Interagency Collaboration • Values Congruent with Economic Transformation NIST MEP

7. Central and Eastern Montana Denver Metro Upstate New York Mid-Michigan Arkansas Delta Southeast Michigan South-Central Idaho Southeast Missouri Minnesota Triangle Central New Jersey Greater Albuquerque Pacific Mountain Washington Energy-Related WIRED Regions NIST MEP

8. Emerging Clean Energy of Practice http://wired-regions.net Topics of Interest: • Education and Workforce Development for Clean Energy • Research and Development/Technology Transfer/Technology Commercialization • Clean Energy Business Incubation: Supporting Start-ups and Entrepreneurs • Accelerating Adoption of Clean Energy Technologies • Creating Sustainable Communities and Regions NIST MEP

9. Clean Energy Federal Partnerships • Creating Partnerships that emphasize the use of government-developed technologies • Working with existing state and federal programs and other local organizations to help business access talent • Goals of partnership include increasing the regions’ industrial competitiveness, stimulation wealth creation and employment opportunities as well as fostering public-private collaboration in technology deployment, innovation, and commercialization. NIST MEP

10. MEP Office Locationswww.mep.nist.gov– or – 800-MEP-4MFG 59 “Centers” 1600 Field Staff 440 Service Locations NIST MEP

11. Small 5% Mid-Size 37% 10-30% savings potential Looking at Smaller Manufacturers Percent of Total Manufacturing Energy • The statistics for the small and midsized manufacturer • Midsize plants consume 26-500 billion Btus per year • And can appreciate a savings from 10-30% • A savings of up to 150 Billion Btus per year U.S. Manufacturing Plants: By Size 200,710 112,398 Large 58% Number of U.S. Plants 84,298 4,014 5-15% savings potential Small Plants Mid-Size Plants Large Plants All Plants 4,014 plants use 58% of the energy. 196,000 plants use more than 42% of the manufacturing energy NIST MEP

12. MOU between NIST and DOE’s Office of EERE • Purpose – Establish collaborative ties to support energy efficiency in the U.S. manufacturing industrial base • Objective – Leverage Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s (MEP) direct reach to industry and the Industrial Technologies Program’s (ITP) content expertise to enhance the energy efficiency technical assistance provided to businesses and industry • Areas of collaboration include: • ITP provides MEP center staff with expert resources to raise awareness of manufacturers about ITP’s best practices energy efficiency resources • Co-sponsored regional training workshops • MEP Centers disseminate information on ITP’s Plant Energy Profiler software tool • Development of energy efficiency qualified specialist training opportunities • Provide existing MEP clients energy efficiency access to assessments provided by ITP • MEP will provide feedback information to ITP when customers have used DOE technology resources including training, software tools, energy assessments, and energy saving information • Promoting approaches for engaging the industrial sector in greater energy efficiency, Achieving Superior Energy Performance, www.superiorenergyperformance.net NIST MEP

13. Components of the IACAssessment Pre-Assessment Analysis & Reporting Assessment Visit Follow Up • Meet with plant management team • Present details of pre-assessment analysis • Tour plant • Collect operating data • Conduct diagnostic testing • Discuss preliminary assessment findings with plant management • Prioritize potential recommendations for further analysis • Duration: One Day • Conduct engineering and financial analyses of priority recommendations • Develop first order estimates of implementation costs • Document results in “GOLD Standard” format assessment report • Upload report data into IAC database • Deliver report to plant within 60 days from plant visit • Conduct follow up discussions with plant, 6-9 months following assessment visit • Identify implemented energy savings • Upload implementation data into the IAC database • Gather plant data including product type, annual sales levels, production levels, operating hours • Study processes and plant layout • Analyze utility billing data • Identify key energy systems • Develop assessment day strategy • To be completed before assessment visit NIST MEP

14. Typical IAC Assessment • $74,000/yr in recommended energy savings • $58,000/yr in recommended non-energy savings • Implementation rates between 45% and 50% • Immediate per plant savings of 5,900 MMBtu/yr, additional replicated and spin-off savings of 1,260 MMBtu/yr • 4-8% of annual IAC plant energy consumption NIST MEP

15. To Get Started • Tip sheets – visit http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/about/brochures.html • Case studies – visit http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/about/brochures.html • Contact Ricardo Cordero (ricardo.cordero@nist.gov) to help with interns and to arrange for an IAC member to demonstrate the Plant Energy Profiler Tool NIST MEP

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17. NIST MEP Partnerships to Support Technology Deployment DOL WIRED Pilot Regions (1) California Innovation Corridor (2) North Central Indiana (3) Greater Kansas City * (4) Western Michigan (5) Central and Eastern Montana (6) Piedmont Triad North Carolina (7) Upstate New York (8) Tennessee Valley (9) Denver Metro * * Kauffman Foundation pilot regions NIST MEP

18. DOL WIRED-MEP Technology Transfer and Deployment Pilots • Identify sources of technology • industrial labs, federal labs • universities • “patent mining” • Identify potential users and adopters of technology • MEP client database • cluster companies • manufacturing associations • Leverage partnerships and models for success such as Eureka Ranch Technology Acceleration Systems • Translation • Valuation • Access NIST MEP

19. Technology Transfer Pilots Initial Lessons Learned • Need a focused “innovation manager” • North Central Indiana • Piedmont Triad North Carolina • Central and Eastern Montana • Sector-focused opportunities (Metro Denver) • help companies articulate priority needs • implement new and preexisting technologies • Identify new products and process improvements • Explicit link to resources available through other federal agencies NIST MEP

20. A WIRED Strategy for Enhancing Public/Private Partnerships Linda Fowler Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Institute of Standards and Technology US Department of Commerce Linda.fowler@nist.gov 301-975-4588 NIST MEP