Another is “a solar project at Redstone [Arsenal] that will provide 18,000 mega- watt hours per year,” about 5 percent of the installation’s power demand. A sec- ond project there, when complete, will provide “a little over 50 percent of the power from on-site generation,” she said. Tat project combines heat and power.
“Tose who have been down to Redstone know that there are steam pipes running all over the place. Tey provide steam for heating and cooling for about half the facilities there.”
Te City of Huntsville, AL, owns the generation capacity, which turns solid municipal waste into steam. Tat con- tract, Simpson said, has been in place for nearly 30 years; through it, “the Army buys a set amount of steam whether they use it or not.” Te current solicitation “is either to convert that plant or build a new plant that would take the excess steam that the Army doesn’t need for heating and cooling, and run it through a turbine and generate electricity.” Tat is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2016 or early 2017, she said.
Tese OEI projects are breaking new ground for the Army. “Tere are dif- ferent types of projects,” Simpson said. “We’re going to have to see how they work out over time.” One ground- breaking aspect is working in different jurisdictions with different rules and with agencies that have never done this kind of contracting before, being accus- tomed to the traditional acquisition of products. “We can move a lot faster, but we’re using procurement agencies that aren’t necessarily experienced in doing that. Te Army hasn’t done things like that before.” For example, Simpson said,
“We work with DLA, Defense Logistics Agency, who normally goes out and buys bulk fuel or buys electricity and things
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overseas. It’s a different process to do it here in the States.”
REDSTONE RENEWABLES For Redstone Arsenal, AL, the spring of 2011 was a turning point. Tat’s when tornadoes blasted the Huntsville region and the power went out at Redstone Arsenal for nine days, despite having mul- tiple power plants to supply electricity. Tat outage has resulted in the Renew- able Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Project, a renewable-energy generation facility that will provide both steam and electricity exclusively to the installation. It will be constructed on five acres in the northeast portion of the installation. Te project is now open to bidders.
“We believe that this is going to benefit the greater Huntsville community, as well as the Tennessee Valley as a whole,” said Erich Kurre, project director with OEI.
Trough the CHP project at Redstone, the Army aims to obtain local steam and 25 megawatts of electricity to enhance energy security. Tere will be no cost to the Army—the contractor will finance, design, build, operate, own and maintain the CHP renewable-energy generation facility.
Currently the arsenal’s power is sup- plied entirely by the Tennessee Valley Authority, but that number is to drop to 48 percent in the future, as the CHP is expected to provide an estimated 48 percent of the power. Solar power will provide the remaining 4 percent.
TACTICAL POWER INITIATIVES Te Command Power and Integration (CP&I) Directorate of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development
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