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The Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office is a unique collaboration of nonprofits that offers tools for cities to become more energy efficient and reduce their global warming impact, while transforming the region’s image from “Rust Belt” to “Green Belt.”
“Other metro regions are now scrambling to try to set up the kind of collaborative effort that we’ve been developing for the past year. Michigan can lead this innovation.”
– Jacob Stevens Corvidae, WARM Training Center
Mission
The mission of the Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office is to convene and manage a federation of local governments and civic partners in support of efficient and sustainable energy related policies and practices in southeast Michigan.
Vision
The Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office will improve the market for energy efficient technologies and renewable sources as part of a dynamic education initiative targeting elected officials and staff who would like to implement energy-programming within their community. An innovative means to encourage the development of cooperative energy programming, the Regional Energy Office will transform metro Detroit’s “rust-belt” image by elevating energy efficiency and green technology as economic development tools. By helping municipal leaders understand the importance of energy conservation to today’s creative class workers, we can build their capacity to create more livable communities that will attract talent and help revive Michigan’s economy.
Critical Success Indicators for the Regional Energy Office
- A 5-10% reduction in per capita energy use by 2015 compared to 2008
- Reducing the number of miles (and hours) we spend traveling in cars
- Meeting the State of Michigan’s renewable portfolio standard of 10% by 2015
- Realizing and quantifying cost savings through efficiency and aggregation
- Membership of 35% of region’s population by year five
Key Strategies
- Expanded intergovernmental cooperation
- Energy conservation project implementation
- Marketing and communications
- Education and training
- Technical assistance
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