1. Cary Chamber Planning Conference
July 21, 2017 |
@TriCleantech

2. What IS a smart city?
“It’s just using digital technology to improve community life.”
- Jesse Berst, Smart Cities Council
A smart city is one that maximizes existing resources.
Enabled by sensors and/or mobile phones, collecting data that cities can use to improve quality of life for residents.
What that means is smart cities look different. Depending on how a community prioritizes what it wants to improve.

3. Urbanization One, people are moving to cities.
One estimate shows that 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.
Here in NC, where we used to be considered a rural state 25 years ago, today 2 out of 3 North Carolinians lives in a city.
Implications for urban communities and rural communities.
Urbanization

4. The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century
Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001.
Climate change affects water quantity, which leads to migration, food insecurity, over-irrigation
Climate Change

5. Technology costs
At the same time, sensor technology costs have plummeted. As a result, we have so many connected things. Cisco says we will 20B by the end of the decade. We have sensors on water mains, on our electricity grid, on our wrists, in our toothbrushes.
Duke Energy says they don’t deploy equipment that does not have an IP address.
We can afford to put sensors on our water infrastructure, in our Fitbits, in our toothbrushes.

6. We’ve had fewer water main breaks in Raleigh than we had this time last year, but we’ve still had more than 100
Our pipes are made of terracotta and they’re old.
Aging infrastructure

7. ABB in Alaska: Reliability, resilience, and renewables
Global trends driving the case for smart cities
The upside for our region is that we are developing these smart cities technologies. Here in our region.
Let me give you some examples.
Kodiak Island in Alaska, very remote. 15,000 residents.
ABB has installed a microgrid that leverages wind power to stabilize the power supply for residents so they have continuous and reliable power.
That intellectual capital is here in the Triangle.
ABB in Alaska:
Reliability, resilience, and renewables

8. Duke Energy and Envision Charlotte:
We also have in our state the country’s largest electric utility, Duke Energy, which has shown leadership in this smart cities space.
Duke Energy was one of the first funders and partners in Envision Charlotte, a public-private partnership created in 2010 to make commercial buildings in Charlotte’s urban core more energy efficient. Itron, Cisco, City of Charlotte.
The philosophy was that if Charlotte could reduce energy use in those areas, it would reduce the cost of doing business in Charlotte, resulting in the creation of greater economic development and environmental benefits.
Charlotte’s uptown has 64 buildings with 10,000 square feet or more of commercial space and 61 of those buildings signed an energy pledge to reduce their energy by 20%, put a shadow meters in their building and a kiosk in the lobby showing the aggregate energy use of all the buildings.
Originally, energy efficiency. Now water usage.
Great example of how a PPP formed for a specific purpose can expand its scope as it is successful.
Duke Energy and Envision Charlotte:
Energy efficiencyeconomic development

9. The Cleantech Industry in North Carolina
Home to the largest, electric utility in the US 2nd in the US for solar capacity (1st per capita) Highest concentration of smart grid companies in the world 1 of 10 test sites in the US for autonomous vehicles Analytics capital of the world Largest pharmaceutical manufacturing site in the world (Novo Nordisk)
Many reasons to invest in North Carolina
Each county in the Research Triangle Regional Partnership’s 15 county region had at least one cleantech industry development project in the past 5 years
80% of 120 cleantech companies surveyed intend to add 3,000 new jobs in next 2 years
Trilliant annual payroll ~ $13M

10. Cleantech Cluster: 350+ companies
We have the highest concentration of smart grid companies in the world, with more than 100 companies focused on modernizing our electrical grid.
We have more than 350 companies focused on clean technologies.
We are the analytics capital of the world with SAS spun out of
We have all of these assets because of our three, tier-1 research universities,
Top 10 city and regional planning program, top 10 engineering school, top 20 school of government, number 1 or 2, depending on the year, school of public health, Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
Cannot overstate the importance of our research universities.
Cleantech Cluster: 350+ companies

11. Our Mission
The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) is an initiative of business, government, and academic leaders focused on accelerating the growth of the Research Triangle Region’s cleantech economy. 

12. RTCC Leadership
Thank our board, leadership, and project members for their investment and direction

13. International Cleantech Network
RTCC is one of 13 international cleantech cluster organizations affiliated with the International Cleantech Network, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bring international market opportunities to members through membership with ICN. RTCC is one 13 regional clusters.
Hosted Delegations from Milan, Austalia, France, Spain, Nigeria, and Japan. Connected members with opportunities, such as C40 Initiative – RTI International applied and was selected as one of 5 partners. RTCC has been invited to serve on the C40 Taskforce to assist the C40 initiative with industry engagement in the 13 Cluster Regions.

14. Marketing and Branding the Region

15. Demonstration Projects
Smart Cities – working with municipalities, TJCOG, Chapel Hill AT&T,
identify challenges, deployments
Map and market “smart cities” deployments
Demonstration Projects

16. Cleantech Events and Opportunities
August 15 – Water a Tool for Economic Development August 17 – Marketplace: Meet the Developers – Kane Realty September 14 - Annual Meeting, Raleigh