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  • January

    The U.S. Army team received this year’s Federal Energy Management Program Director’s Award for executing over $1 billion in performance contracts leading all federal agencies in the Presidents Performance Contracting Challenge of $4 billion by 2016 at the ceremony Dec. 7, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Receiving the award are Randy Shed, Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability; Randy Smidt, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management; Margaret Simmons, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville; Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment; Pamela Griffith, Defense Logistics Agency-Energy; Michael Norton, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville; and David Williams, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    USACE garners 2016 FEMP Award

    Leading the effort to save taxpayers’ money and contribute to energy and water efficiency, the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, was recently recognized alongside other members of the Army team with several 2016 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards.

  • December

    Hon. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Kate Brandt,Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council of Environmental Quality, , visit Mobile District's Stennis Lock and Dam on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi to learn about its energy and sustainability efforts with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

    USACE helps exceed the President’s Performance Contracting Challenge

    The White House announced Dec. 28 that federal agencies have exceeded its Presidential Performance Contracting Challenge (PPCC) to award $4 billion in energy efficiency contracts by the end of 2016.

  • November

    Michael Norton, chief of the Energy Implementation Branch at Huntsville Center, discusses the REM workshop agenda with more than 30 resource efficiency managers and Huntsville Center customers during the annual event Nov. 17-18 at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.

    Resource Efficiency Managers workshop provides tips on energy savings resources

    Resource efficiency managers from various organizations attended a workshop held Nov. 17-18 by the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
  • Porscha Porter, Huntsville Center’s Energy Division branch chief for Strategy and Business Management, moderates a panel focusing on federal government energy initiatives and partnerships during Energy Huntsville's Energy Summit Nov.15 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

    Energy Summit 2016 provides energy insight for government, businesses

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville participated in Energy Huntsville’s Energy Summit 2016 Nov. 17-18 at the Davidson Center on the campus of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

  • August

    This aerial view of the solar photovoltaic array at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. was taken Jan. 8, 2013. The panels cover 42 acres and provide more than 4 megawatts of electricity to the base. (Photo courtesy of Solaria)

    Huntsville Center helps Army surpass $1 billion performance contracting goal

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's Energy Division was instrumental in helping the Army exceed the $1 billion President's Performance Contracting Challenge.

  • July

    Huntsville Center is considered the Army’s expert in Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC).

    Huntsville Center helps Aberdeen Proving Ground create innovative facility

    The culmination of innovative thinking focused on conservation and sustainability was realized July 19, during the official opening of the new Combined Heat and Power plant on the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground. The effort was achieved through collaborations with the Huntsville Corps of Engineers and energy saving partnerships with defense contractor Johnson Controls and Baltimore, Gas and Electric, BGE.

  • June

    Matthew Urbanic, a Huntsville Center contracting officer, makes balloon animals.

    Contracting officer creates howling good time for kids

    Huntsville Center, Energy Division contracting officer entertained children at Organizational Day and Team Redstone in the Park by transforming into Sergeant Woof. Woof is a dog who teaches children about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and the three R’s of ordnance safety: recognize, retreat and report.
  • Jeffery Watts speaks during an Energy Huntsville meeting in April 2016.

    Energy team earns 2016 USACE sustainability award

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Division has earned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2016 Good Neighbor Award for its collaboration and partnership with Energy Huntsville, a non-profit dedicated to growing the region’s economy in the energy sector and establishing the city as the “go-to technology center for solutions to energy programs and projects.”
  • David Williams, Chip Marin, Maj. Gen. Ted Harrison, Bill Kelly, Richard Kidd, Col. Bill Marks and Michael McGhee symbolically break ground on Redstone Arsenal's solar project June 3.

    Sun shines on Redstone Arsenal energy savings

    Officials symbolically broke ground June 3 on a renewable energy solar project designed to bolster Redstone Arsenal’s energy security. The 10 megawatt solar power system, which will be located on approximately 66 acres off Redstone Road, is expected to be operational by December.

  • May

    Paul Robinson, left, Huntsville Center Energy Division chief, and Mike McGhee, Army Office of Energy Initiatives executive director, engage with theHuntsville Center Energy Division team during a program overview at the Center May 6.

    OEI director visits Huntsville Center

    Mike McGhee met with the Center’s Energy Division team, which works closely with OEI to procure and manage large-scale renewable energy projects bringing energy security to Army installations worldwide.

  • September

    Jim Duttweiler, Directorate of Public Works, Sandy Grogan, Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative, John Davies, Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence, and Rick McCoy, DPW, join Garrison Commander Col. James “Rob” Salome and Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell commander, for the ribbon-cutting for Phase One of the installation’s solar array.

    Fort Campbell solar array’s first phase ‘plugs in’

    Fort Campbell officials marked a huge accomplishment in renewable energy Sept. 21 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Phase One of the installation’s solar array, made possible through a Utility Energy Services Contract.