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Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience

Webinar 2: Roadmap Action Steps 1-3

1 PM CST, October 21, 2020

• Webinar 1: The Roadmap to Resilience

▪ 1 PM CST, October 7, 2020

• Webinar 2: Building Blocks to Launch Resilience Efforts - Actions 1-3

▪ 1 PM CST, October 21, 2020

• Webinar 3: Building Blocks to Launch Resilience Efforts - Actions 4-6

▪ 1 PM CST, November 4, 2020

• Webinar 4: Application of the Roadmap – St. James, Missouri

▪ 1 PM CST, November 18, 2020

• Webinar 5: Implementing Action Steps

▪ 1 PM CST, December 2, 2020

Roadmap to Resilience Webinar Series

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• Welcome
• Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Project
• Speaker: Cherylyn Kelley – Department of Natural Resources -Division of

Energy

• Deep Dive: First Three Actions for Communities to Launch Resilience Efforts
• Speakers: Dana Al-Qadi – Engineer & Karen Massey – Consultant, AECOM
• The Value of Leveraging Community Partners and Assets when Resilience

Planning

• Speaker: Bill Abolt – Vice President, AECOM
• Questions
• Next Steps & Closing Remarks

Webinar 2 Agenda

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Cherylyn Kelley – MoDNR-DE Senior Energy Policy Analyst

Presenters

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Karen Massey – AECOM Senior Sustainability Consultant Dana Al-Qadi, D.Eng – AECOM Senior Engineering Consultant Bill Abolt – AECOM Vice President

Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience

Cherylyn Kelley

Senior Policy Analyst – Division of Energy

Project Team

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Cost Share Partners

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Partner Communities

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• Two-year project initiated in February 2019
• Funded by U.S. Department of Energy
• Target is small- to medium-sized

communities

• Helps make resilience planning process

more straightforward and impactful – no need to feel ‘lost’ or ‘perplexed!’

Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Project Overview

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10 1% 2% 97%

Land Area

6% 67% 27%

Population

• Roadmap project developed in response to significant gaps in planning for

resilience in small and medium-sized communities.

• Majority of resilience work has focused on large metropolitan areas
• Resilience gap widening between cities and small- to medium-sized

communities

• Small- to medium-sized communities face barriers towards building their

resilience

Small and Medium-Sized Community Resilience Gaps

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Acute Shocks

Sudden, high intensity events that pose a direct threat to a community. Examples include:

• Tornados
• Floods
• Disease outbreaks
• Infrastructure failure

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ChronicStressors

Persistent, long-term issues that weaken a community’s social, economic, and environmental fabric and exacerbate

• utcomes to acute shocks. Examples

include:

• Declining population
• Poverty/inequity
• Aging infrastructure
• Inefficient public transportation

systems

• Poor air and soil quality

• Replicable, scalable
• Help communities prepare
• Address unique attributes

Roadmap to Resilience Goal

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RESILIENCE VISION

Resilient small- to medium-size communities that are equipped with energy resources to thrive environmentally, socially, and economically in the face of chronic stresses and acute shocks.

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SMALL-TO MEDIUM- SIZE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

The ability of a community to withstand, adapt to, and reduce the impact of acute shocks and chronic stresses while preserving and improving its unique character, sense of community, and livability.

A Comprehensive Approach to Community Resilience

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• Strengthen critical energy infrastructure
• Alleviate energy burden
• Invest in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and

energy storage solutions

• Promote economic development and growth
• Mitigate hazards
• Increase community operations resilience
• Enhance community livability

Deep Dive: First Three Actions for Communities to Launch Resilience Efforts

Dana Al-Qadi, D.Eng

Senior Engineering Consultant – AECOM

Karen Massey

Senior Sustainability Consultant – AECOM

• A scalable, comprehensive approach that can be tailored to unique resilience

initiatives

• Based upon best practices and baseline analysis for existing resilience planning

efforts in communities in order to identify and develop priorities, tools, and planning practices

• Details a resilience plan development process
• Four Resilience Planning Phases
• Six Actions Resilience Planning Process

The Roadmap to Resilience

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Four Phases

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Communities define their resilience

• bjectives and goals as well as

identify resilience threats and stressors. Use the baseline conditions identified in the Assessment phase to envision actionable targets that can be achieved through implementable measures. Work with key stakeholders to define clear, actionable steps to implement initiatives that accomplish targets set in the Envision phase. Monitor strategies and progress on critical areas, report findings, and adjust as needed to support ongoing monitoring of metrics and goals to inform future decision making.

Six Actions

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To develop a thorough understanding of small-to medium-size communities’ resilience needs, it is critical to conduct

• utreach to stakeholder groups and

prioritize stakeholder engagement.

Action 1: Stakeholder Engagement

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Leadership

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Schedule Initial Meetings One-on-one or small group initial meetings with community leaders can provide community context and lay the foundation for successful engagement. Empower Local Organizations to Take Leadership Empower local leadership to lead resilience initiatives to increase the likelihood that initiatives will be successfully implemented, maintained, and well-received.

Logistics

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Start the Conversation Facilitators can prepare stakeholders for productive discussions by requesting needed data, statistics, or circulating questions in advance. Local and Accessible Location Facilitators can hold meetings in local and accessible locations at convenient times of day. Communication Platforms Facilitators can use multiple mediums of communication to reach their target audience:

• nline, print, or word of mouth.

Message

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Address Relevant Topics

Focus on relevant resilience topics such as energy and critical facilities, economic development and growth, resilient community operations, and energy burden.

Provide Successful Case Studies

Identify commonalities in different communities’ case studies in terms of assets, challenges, funding strategies, and impactful partnerships during stakeholder engagement.

Stakeholders

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Select Effective Stakeholders

Develop a comprehensive list of stakeholders for resilience efforts with updated contact information and areas in which they may be relevant to engage.

Share Expertise

Holistic resilience planning is most effective when engaging interdisciplinary expertise and leveraging the role of multiple departments and agencies.

Action 2: Baseline Analysis

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The objective of a baseline analysis is to evaluate existing structures, partnerships, and initiatives and use the evaluation to inform areas of

• pportunity.

Baseline Analysis Best Practices

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Define the Baseline: Inventory and measure conditions and boundaries of critical areas. Conduct Risk Assessments: Conduct assessments that are specific to a community in order to inform pragmatic and incremental resilience plans. Leverage Stakeholder Efforts: Use stakeholder engagement

• pportunities to identify

information and data that will contribute to the baseline analysis. Conduct Bottom-up Community Engagement: Bottom-up citizen driven participation is effective for resilience planning that addresses needs of the community.

Baseline Analysis Best Practices

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Take a Strategic Approach: Resilience planning should emphasize small, smart, incremental investments for

• ngoing progress and

benchmarking. Identify Co-benefits: Identify opportunities for multifunctional infrastructure that can address resilience needs and achieve collateral benefits that address community priorities. Conduct Financial Inventory: Identifying existing financial resources that are being used, or could be used, to fund resilience measures. Create Scalable Solutions: Use strategic planning to identify solutions that can be scaled to

• ther communities to

meet additional challenges.

Baseline Analysis Best Practices

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Utilize Integrated Resilience Approaches: Utilize integrated resilience approaches to plan and implement initiatives in a way that supports reduction of community vulnerability to a range

• f threats and contributes to building resilience in

a way that accounts for improved risk management, city development, and community livability. Prioritize Solutions: Inventory and measure conditions and prioritize solutions and initiatives that meet the larger needs of the community and enhance resilience to future threats based on defined and set goals.

• The objective of developing partnerships is to bring

together skills, resources, and perspectives of multiple entities and/or individuals to accelerate resilience planning and implementation more comprehensively and effectively than one organization could alone.

• Form partnerships to fill critical gaps in funding,

expertise, workforce and physical assets as well as provide other benefits.

Action 3: Leverage Partners and Assets

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Formal and Informal Partnerships

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Informal Partnerships

• Collaborative efforts
• Information sharing
• Non-formal agreement

Formal Partnerships

• Increased level of

involvement & commitment

• Significant resources
• Formal agreement

Informal to Formal Partnerships Evolution of partnership may

• ccur as resilience planning

process progresses

Leverage Partners and Assets

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Small- to Medium-Size Community Assets

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Community Engagement Engaged and committed citizens Shared Systems ​ Coordination across several community services​ Coordination Across Regions​ Operational connection to neighboring communities Knowledge of Systems​ Highly experienced employees and

• perators

The Value of Leveraging Community Partners and Assets When Resilience Planning

Bill Abolt

Vice President – AECOM

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Partnerships are Foundational

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Why Community-Utility Partnerships?

• Community-utility partnerships can:
• Leverage diverse sets of resources
• Provide a more holistic planning approach
• Accelerate the implementation of energy solutions
• Drive policy changes and goals
• Spark community engagement

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Keys to Success

Creating a Shared Vision Appropriate Regulatory Environment Listening to Community Feedback Partnering with Diverse Stakeholders Laying the Groundwork Establishing Metrics for Success Building on Success

Leveraging Utility Investments in a Community of the Future

Chicago and ComEd

• Chicago and ComEd invest in the Community
• f the Future in Bronzeville.
• The partners work together to accomplish

four interconnected goals: Resilience, Decarbonization, Inclusive Economic Growth, and STEM Education.

• The partnership successfully increased solar

capacity, installed the first utility-owned microgrid, provided clean and accessible mobility options, installed off-grid renewable lighting, and promoted STEM education and careers.

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Questions or Comments?

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CLOSING REMARKS

Roadmap: Next Steps

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Six Actions

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Identify Innovative Funding Sources

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Use Federal and National Laboratory Resources

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DOE FEMA EPA NREL FTA LBNL ANL NOAA NIST USGCRP

Measure Success

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Energy System: Electric utility and reliability of power Economic Development: Economy, workforce and transportation Energy Usage and Energy Burden: energy consumption and the amount paid for energy Critical Infrastructure: systems, networks and assets that are essential for a functioning community Community Operations: local government and its ability to serve the public

Upcoming Webinars

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Missouri Department of Natural Resources Division of Energy Cherylyn Kelley Senior Energy Policy Analyst - Project Manager Roadmap to Resilience

Energy.mo.gov 573-751-2254 Energy@dnr.mo.gov 573-751-6653 Cherylyn.Kelley@dnr.mo.gov

Contact Information

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