[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Army contracts for renewable energy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville Center
News Release No. 13-030
May 3, 2013

Army MATOC - First awards under $7 billion renewable energy contract


HUNTSVILLE, Ala.  - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and  
Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives  
Task Force (EITF), today awarded the first of its kind Indefinite  
Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order  
Contracts (MATOC) for the first technology under this contract to  
support renewable energy on Defense Department installations.

Individual MATOC awards are being staggered by technology starting  
with today’s announcement for geothermal.  Announcement of awards for  
the remaining technologies, solar, wind and biomass, are anticipated  
for staggered release through the end of calendar year 2013.

The total amount for all awards under the Renewable and Alternative  
Energy Power Production for DoD Installations MATOC will not exceed  
$7 billion.  The MATOC will be used to procure reliable, locally  
generated, renewable and alternative energy through power purchase  
agreements (PPA).  The $7 billion capacity would be expended for PPAs  
to procure energy over a period of 30 years or less from renewable  
energy plants that are designed, financed, constructed, operated and  
maintained by contractors using private sector financing.  0 years or  
less from renewable energy plants that are designed, financed,  
constructed, operated and maintained by contractors using private  
sector financing.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/NewsReleases/tabid/10750/Article/ 
13524/army-matoc-first-awards-under-7-billion-renewable-energy- 
contract.aspx

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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