Energy & Colorado Blueprint

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Energy & Colorado Blueprint

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Progressive 15

Energy Summit

June 26, 2013

Colorado Blueprint: Colorado’s Economic Development Strategy

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Bottom
-
Up: Where We Started

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Blueprint: Where We’ve Been


Business Plan: Where We are Going



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Business friendly environment

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Retain, recruit and grow business

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Access to capital

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Brand a stronger Colorado

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Train & educate the workforce of the future

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Innovation & Technology

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Key
Industries

Regions

State

Pipeline

Top Line Metrics

Colorado Blueprint: Colorado’s Economic Development Strategy

Colorado Blueprint:
State Alignment

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State Agencies Liaisons

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Cabinet Contacts

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Colorado Economic Forum


First Annual Alignment of Economic Development, Education, and Workforce
Development

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Pits & Peeves

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Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)

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Brand Colorado

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Statewide marketing initiative

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Aligned Data Task Force

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Integrated and Aligned Data Teams


Colorado Blueprint: Regional Partnerships

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Regional Partnership Ecosystem


Industry


Economic Development Organizations


Workforce Development Centers

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Academia


Government


Community
Organizations


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Benefits


Identification and convening of regional economic development ecosystem
stakeholders

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Boots
-
on
-
the
-
ground monitoring of regional plans and sector strategies progress

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Building trust and relationships between the State and local partners in the regions


Maintaining a line
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of
-
sight to bottom
-
up and Colorado Blueprint

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Outcomes


Strategic Business Plans that promote regional economic growth


Business ready communities



Colorado Blueprint: Key Industry Networks

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Aerospace


Bioscience


Creative Industries


Tourism & Outdoor Recreation

Electronics


Energy

& Natural Resources


Food & Agriculture

Health & Wellness


Infrastructure Engineering


Technology & Information


Financial

Services


Defense & Homeland Security


Advanced Manufacturing


Transportation

& Logistics


Colorado Blueprint: Key Industry Networks

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Benefits


Synergies from collaboration


Identification of Colorado’s assets,
strengths and opportunities


Development of public
-
private
partnerships

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Outcomes


Strategic Business Plans that promote
industry growth

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Colorado Sector Partnerships

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Colorado Blueprint: Pipeline

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Business Development Team

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Domestic & International


Aligned by Key Industry

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Lead or Support a Prospect

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Process Flow

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Proactive Recruitment


Outbound Marketing Trips


Site Selector Relationships

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Colorado INSITE
–

Statewide Asset Map

•
What’s is it for Colorado?


Statewide database of sites & building
information


Map layers of critical Colorado infrastructure
and assets


Generated demographic data by drive time
and radius

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Benefits


Assists in converting inquires, to conversations,
to projects


Provides real
-
time proposal self
-
service for
prospects


Allows OEDIT to provide updates of projects to
local economic development partners

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Energy in Colorado

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Consumption by Sector

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Energy Jobs in Colorado


50,000 - Oil & Gas
6,186 - Solar
6,132 - Utilities
5,000 - Wind
2,199 - Coal
2131 - NREL
1,966 - Energy Efficiency
625 - Energy Performance Contracting
330 - Weatherization
299 - Smart Grid
162 - Electric Vehicles
36 - Geothermal
35 - Colorado Industrial Energy Challenge
28 - Biomass
23 - Small Hydro
2.87%

Of Jobs in Colorado


77,285 Total Energy Jobs



Not Included: Biofuels, Large Hydro, Waste Heat

Numbers are estimates from 2010
-
2011

2,693,800 Total Colorado Jobs

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Thank You

kari.linker@state.co.us



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