Technology Roadmapping, An Efficient Tool for Driving Regional Technological Changes

Abstract

Technology has played a central role in the Northwest’s development, from the Federal Columbia River Power System to technology giants like Boeing, Microsoft and Intel to thousands of businesses, universities and laboratories. In the Northwest, irrigation is high tech. This savvy has allowed the region to meet half of its load growth through cost-effective investments in energy efficiency for more than thirty years. Through the leadership of the region’s utilities, labs, universities, energy organizations and private businesses, the Northwest has been able to successfully deliver energy efficiency as a reliable resource. The Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Sixth Power Plan calls for roughly 85 percent of the region’s power needs to be met with energy efficiency by 2030. In order to meet these goals, we must find ways to increase the adoption rates of existing products and services. At the same time, we must also strategically target the region’s research and development resources into efforts that will produce the technologies needed to enable the products of tomorrow. Beginning in December 2009, thirty-five experts from twenty organizations pooled their efforts to develop an energy efficiency technology roadmap that would define a research agenda for the Northwest. The results of the intensive ten-week effort, along with revisions based on critical comments received following the release of a Northwest Energy Efficiency Technology Roadmap.

Technology Planning for Aligning Emerging Business Models and Regulatory Structures — The Case of Electric Vehicle Charging and the Smart Grid

“…Few studies consider policy dimensions of TRM or regulatory frameworks, particularly in the utility industry TRM generally used at company-, industry-, and national-level, rather than incorporating regional utility concerns More work also needed prioritizing R&D, acquisition, and barriers [1][2][3][4][5], [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] [ 18,19], [21,22], [26][27][28][29][30][31], [32][33][34][35][36], [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]…”

“…A variety of methods have been developed for integrating aspects of business modeling with technology roadmapping [18,19], [21,22], [26][27][28][29][30][31]. The application of roadmapping to smart grid related industries also need to consider regional implications associated with region spanning utility systems [32][33][34][35][36] and development of business models to address strategic, regulatory, and policy landscapes [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52].…”

“…More work is also needed to understand how to prioritize R&D needs, acquisition efforts [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75] as well as to understand barriers what may affect implementation. It then may be possible to determine how such barriers could be mitigated with practices involving appropriate business models, market, and regulatory elements [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43].…”

Technology Planning for Aligning Emerging Business Models and Regulatory Structures: The Case of Electric Vehicle Charging and the Smart Grid

“…A variety of methods have been developed for integrating aspects of business modeling with technology roadmapping [132,133], [135,136], [140][141][142][143][144][145]. The application of roadmapping to smart grid related industries also need to consider regional implications associated with region spanning utility systems [61,62,[146][147][148] and development of business models to address strategic, regulatory, and policy landscapes [149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164].…”

“…More work also needed prioritizing R&D, acquisition, and barriers [29][30][31][32][33], [120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128][129], [130][131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138][139] [ 132,133], [135,136], [140][141][142][143][144][145], [61,62,[146][147][148], [149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158]…”