US Military Working with Private Sector to Strengthen Domestic Installation Energy Security

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US Military Working with Private Sector to Strengthen Domestic Installation Energy Security
By Jared Anderson
on January 23, 2014 at 12:00 PM

Domestic military installations require reliable energy sources that can power their operations 24-hours per day under all circumstances. Mission assurance, cost savings and mandated energy saving initiatives are driving the Department of Defense to deploy new energy technology with the help of innovative financing mechanisms.

The three main military branches each have a goal of deploying 1 GW of renewable energy by 2025 and they are using different strategies in different regions. “The branches have organized differently, but they are all trying reach same goal of 3 GW by 2025,” Phyllis Cuttino, Clean Energy Program Director at the PEW Charitable Trusts recently told Breaking Energy.

PEW and consulting firm Navigant Research released a report last week entitled Power Surge: How the Department of Defense Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases.

“This research focuses on the energy security challenges at domestic defense installations, where 20 percent of the Department of Defense’s power consumption occurs. Recent history has underscored the continuing role that soldiers and civilians on domestic bases provide, whether it is in supporting troops operating thousands of miles away or here at home assisting emergency response and relief operations for American communities suffering from natural disasters. None of this can happen unless our military installations have a diversity of efficient power sources they need every minute of every day of the year,” Senator John W. Warner, Retired, says in the report.