No news on the Army’s Renewable
and Alternative Energy Power Production for DOD Installation solicitation. The 26 July notice indicated that it will be
on the street within the next 15 days, so watch your lanes. Circle 10 August on your calendars!
The Air Force and Navy approaches to the Presidential one
gigawatt per service goal continue to follow a more decentralized path,
although both Services have EITF-like organizations. The USAF’s Renewable Energy Project
Development (REPD) Subpanel vets potential projects and then passes on winners
to the appropriate AF agencies for execution.
The Navy released a Shore
Energy Policy in late June to describe how they will achieve their piece of
the pie. The policy defines energy
security and is clear on what that means: “Provide reliable, resilient, and
redundant mission critical sources to Navy tier I and II task critical assets
(TCA) ashore”. The Navy has had a Shore
Energy Policy Board since Oct of 2001, who could fulfill the screening/vetting
role . It is unclear if they are passing
out projects, but that being said, in pursuit of their one gigawatt goal, the
Navy is going back to the well.
Literally.
The Navy released a sources sought solicitation for “Large Scale
Renewable Energy Generation facility at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China
Lake”. For those not familiar with
China Lake, it is the home of the DOD’s largest renewable energy power plant(s),
270 megawatts of geothermal generated electricity. The four plants are owned by commercial
interests. The Navy is now looking for
ideas in the 20-200MW range at China Lake.
The solicitation does not specify a technology. While we wait on the Army MATOC, go check out
the Navy’s offering. Service the close
in target while you wait for the deep battle to begin. Dan Nolan
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