As part of NEEA’s strategic planning process, the Strategic Planning Committee and staff conducted broad outreach to regional stakeholders including more than sixty interviews with individual stakeholders. The focus of the outreach was to gather perspectives to assist NEEA’s understanding of the current and future environment and identify trends and issues that could potentially impact NEEA and its stakeholders. The following groups have provided input as part of an in-person interview:
- Current NEEA Funders (Electric and Gas)
- State Public Utility Commissions
- State Offices
- NGOs
- Trade associations
- Manufacturers
- Retailer
- Distributors
In addition, an online survey, open to any stakeholder, resulted in 41 completed surveys, with more than 200 views of the situational assessment papers.
The following document explores this feedback, emphasizing convergence of opinion amongst the groups. For the purposes of this summary, feedback and areas of convergence (themes) were divided by category of stakeholder.
For the purpose of this document, convergence is defined as a recurring topic or theme that appeared multiple times throughout the outreach process. Since not every topic was brought up or discussed by every stakeholder, it is impossible to identify all areas of convergence, but the following summary provides some insight into the subjects most frequently discussed.