Department of Defense Facilities

Department of Defense Facilities
Author: Anthony Andrews
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1437938353

In the early 1970s, Congress began mandating reductions in energy consumed by fed. agencies; primarily by improving building efficiency, and reducing fossil fuel use. Early legislation mandated a 10% reduction in fed. building energy and a recent Exec. Order mandates a 30% further reduction by 2015. This report reviews energy conservation legislation and Exec. Orders that apply to the DoD. Contents: Background; Energy Efficiency Legislation; Defense Energy Policies; Defense Energy Consumption and Spending; Renewable Electric Energy Purchases; Defense Energy Efficiency Improvements; Policy Considerations and Options for Congress. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand publication.

Defense Energy Management

Defense Energy Management
Author: Edward R. Myers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Energy conservation
ISBN: 9781606925744

The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to make significant progress toward achieving the goals of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) and Executive Order (EO) 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. The DOD Energy Program initiatives include energy awareness efforts, energy manager training, audit programs, procurement of energy efficient products, and the use of sustainable design in new construction and major renovation. Other contributing factors include integrated energy planning, enhanced use of renewable energy, demonstration of innovative technologies, and the use of Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) and Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC). DOD is responding to EPAct 2005 and EO 13423. Combined, these mandates established a new energy baseline (2003), increased the annual reduction requirement to 3 percent per year, increased the percentage of renewable energy required (7.5 percent by 2013), increased energy efficiency of new construction to 30 percent below the current standard, and required metering electricity consumption of all facilities. Through Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, the Department of Defense achieved a 10.1 percent decrease in goal facility energy consumption (as measured on a British Thermal Units (Btu) per gross square foot (GSF) basis [Btu/GSF]) as compared to the revised 2003 baseline. The Department of the Army determined that the square footage was over reported in 2003, compared to data contained in the real property database. Therefore, this book contains a significantly revised baseline, which raises the previously reported Btu/GSF from 113,510 to 116,134. At the end of FY 2007 the Department has 1.95 billion square feet of facilities and spent $3.4 billion on facility energy. DoD spent $9.5 billion on non-fleet vehicles and other equipment - such as auto gasoline, LPG-Propane, Aviation Gasoline, jet fuel and Navy-special fuel. DOD continues to make progress in installing renewable energy technologies and purchasing electricity generated from renewable sources (solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass) when life cycle cost-effective. The National Defence Authorization Act of 2007 codified a 2005 DOD goal to produce or procure renewable energy equivalent to 25 percent of facility electrical consumption. The total renewable energy that the Department produced or procured in FY 2007 amounted to 12,054 trillion Btu and represents 11.9 percent of the facility electrical consumption. For FY 2007, the Department of Energy revised the guidance for compliance with the renewable energy requirements of EPAct 2005 and EO 13423, allowing only renewable electricity. Under this revised guidance, DoD achieved 5.5 percent total and 3.3 percent new renewable energy, well exceeding the goals of 3 percent and 1.5 percent respectively.

Energy Conservation and Conversion

Energy Conservation and Conversion
Author: Marshall Hoyler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1986
Genre: Energy conservation
ISBN:

The Department of Defense has achieved a reduction in total energy consumption since 1975 and has made good to excellent progress against eleven of its sixteen energy conservation and conversion goals. Weak to poor performance against the remaining five goals frequently reflects good management, since the costs of achieving these goals would have exceeded the benefits of doing so. When DoD progress is compared with that of the U.S. economy overall -- which is feasible for eleven of its conservation/conversion goals -- DoD performance appears better for five goals, similar for four, and worse for two. Keywords: Energy, Conservation, energy conversion.

GAO Documents

GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.