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US Navy Submarine Base Signs PPA for Two Fuel Cell Plants

May 8, 2017April 13, 2022 by Jennifer Nastu

The US Navy’s submarine base in Groton, CT, will soon have long-term power supplied by two power plants from FuelCell Energy. The energy company is working with the submarine base via a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Connecticut Municipal Electric Cooperative, which in turn will work with Groton Utilities ... Read more »

U.S. Navy to Develop Solar+Battery at Pacific Missile Range Facility

February 16, 2017April 11, 2022 by Cheryl Kaften

03The U.S. Navy plans to develop a 44-MW solar farm and battery energy storage system on nearly 200 acres at the 2,134-acre Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on the west side of the island of Kauai, according to a February 9 report by Pacific Business News. The Navy ... Read more »

Why Your Firm Should Consider Products’ Total Cost of Ownership

October 17, 2016November 29, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As corporations look to cut their environmental costs, evaluating total cost of ownership — or the total direct and indirect costs of owning a product or service — provides a way to achieve greater environmental accountability and better resource management. It’s not an easy task. It requires executives to dive ... Read more »

Navy Ship Runs on 100% Biodiesel

August 8, 2016November 29, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A US Navy ship has operated on a 100 percent drop-in renewable diesel fuel — a first, according to the biofuel makers Applied Research Associates and Chevron Lummus Global. Last week the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s Self Defense Test Ship completed final-phase testing of a 100 percent drop-in ... Read more »

US Navy Asks Largest Suppliers to Disclose GHG Emissions via CDP

April 27, 2016December 15, 2022 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Navy will ask its 100 largest suppliers to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as strategies for cutting them, via CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project). The US military is the world’s largest fossil fuels user with the Navy and Marines representing a third of that use. The ... Read more »

DoD Leads Significant Federal Energy Use Reduction

December 8, 2015September 1, 2022 by Carl Weinschenk

The federal government’s use of energy fell last year to 0.94 quadrillion BTUs, the lowest total since record keeping began 40 years ago. In 1975, almost 1.6 quadrillion BTUs were consumed, according to Today in Energy. The reduction, which was computed by the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), was led ... Read more »

Georgia Power Begins 30 MW Solar Project at Naval Submarine Base

September 22, 2015April 4, 2022 by Karen Henry

Georgia Power has begun construction of a 30 MW solar project at the Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) Kings Bay near St. Marys, Georgia. The SUBASE Kings Bay project is expected to occupy 258 acres on the base and utilize approximately 136,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) panels to deliver energy to the ... Read more »

Federal Agencies Scramble to Meet Renewables Target

August 24, 2015March 23, 2022 by Linda Hardesty

Under a goal established in March by Executive Order 13693, titled “Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade,” US federal agencies have until 2025 to get at least 30 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. That trumps the 20 percent target established in a 2009 presidential memorandum. Currently, ... Read more »

Navy to Sign PPA for 210 MW Solar

August 18, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The Department of the Navy will host a signing ceremony this week with Western Area Power Administration and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, a US renewable energy developer, to celebrate the largest renewable energy purchase by a federal entity. Via a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA), the Navy will purchase ... Read more »

Navy Spends $20M for HVAC Upgrades in Indiana

May 11, 2015September 1, 2022 by Linda Hardesty

Five companies have won a combined $20 million contract to design and construct heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems at the Naval Support Activity, Crane, and the Glendora Test Facility in Indiana. All five contracts contain a one-year base period and four option years. Awardees of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are: ... Read more »

Navy Explores Seawater Air Conditioning

February 3, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Makai Ocean Engineering has completed a contract funded by the Office of Naval Research through the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute to research and develop Seawater Air Conditioning (SWAC) technology. SWAC is a method to provide air conditioning to buildings using a district cooling system that uses an available cold water ... Read more »

Navy Conducts Microgrid Project

December 1, 2014September 1, 2022 by Linda Hardesty

Foresight Renewable Solutions has selected Imergy Power Systems’ ESP30 series vanadium-based flow batteries for a microgrid project sponsored by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and hosted by the US Navy. To be deployed at the Navy’s Mobile Utilities Support Equipment Facility in Port Hueneme, Calif., the project will focus on ... Read more »

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