i-ENCON Program Realizes Record Savings

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i-ENCON Program Realizes Record Savings
February 20, 2009
Navy News

WASHINGTON - Naval Sea Systems Command announced Feb. 18 that Navy ships realized a record of more than $48 million in fuel cost avoidance during the first quarter of fiscal year 2009.

"This is the highest cost avoidance achieved in a quarter since the i-ENCON program was implemented fleet-wide in fiscal year 1999, said NAVSEA incentivized Energy Conservation (i-ENCON) Program Manager Hasan Pehlivan. "It also follows the program's record cost avoidance of more than $136 million for ship fuel conservation in fiscal year 2008."

The i-ENCON program is one of two major initiatives comprising the Navy's Energy Conservation Program, spearheaded by NAVSEA's Marine Engineering team. Committed to reducing ships' energy consumption by 10 percent each year, i-ENCON is a hands-on "Meet the Fleet" initiative. Program sponsors conduct routine meetings with ship operators to review specific fuel-saving procedures and recommend quarterly awards for ships with the most fuel-efficient operations.

Saving fuel saves money. These efforts increase fleet readiness by enabling Sailors at sea to train or deploy longer while spending the same amount of money on fuel.

One of the ways NAVSEA's i-ENCON measures fuel and cost avoidance is through underburn, the reported fuel rate for the quarter that's below the ship class' average burn rate.


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