[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Army establlishes new office

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Army office focuses on energy diversity, security


BY C. Todd Lopez
Army Times
November 4, 2008


WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 4, 2008) -- The Army recently 
established the Energy and Partnership Office to not only conserve 
energy, but also to reduce the Army’s dependence on the civilian power grid.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Partnerships Paul 
Bollinger serves as head of the office. As the Army's senior energy 
executive, Bollinger is responsible for implementing the service's 
energy security strategy on an enterprise approach.

...

The Army currently has several ongoing energy projects, including the 
solar projects at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo., and 
large-scale energy-management programs at Fort Hood, Texas. Recently, 
Secretary of the Army Pete Geren announced several pilot energy 
projects: the development of a 500-megawatt solar thermal plant at Fort 
Irwin, Calif.; a 30Mw geothermal plant at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev.; 
and biomass-to-fuel demonstrations at six Army posts; a giant Energy 
Savings Performance Contract for an entire installation; and, the 
purchase of 4,000 Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, or NEVs, that will be 
sent to 44 installations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/11/04/13869-new-army-office-focuses-on-energy-diversity-security/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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