Working Groups

Prior to its annual Emerging Issues Forum, IEI convenes working groups to tackle issue-specific challenges identified through extensive research and meetings with issue stakeholders. The goal of the working group process is to produce a set of policy priorities that informs the structure and content of each Forum while establishing a course of action that will contribute to the state's future growth and prosperity.

Starting with a common vision of North Carolina's long-term energy challenges, this year’s working groups produced twenty specific action items with the goal of meeting the following five objectives:

Improve Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Reform the Utility Regulatory Environment

Recruit and Sustain New Energy Businesses

Develop a Green Workforce

Create Financing Options