The Navy's ambitious dual energy goals – 50% of shore-based energy from alternative sources and net-zero energy status for 50% of Navy and Marine Corps installations – require a strategy as powerful as the institution itself.
Partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Navy piloted energy efficiency demonstration projects at eight installations in Hawaii and Guam. The resulting success has encouraged the Navy to implement several of the technologies more broadly, according to Steve Gorin, director of NREL's Department of Defense Energy Program. Two strategies in particular offered noteworthy savings:
The project also addressed other efficiency measures, as well as renewable energy generation and energy systems integration.