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  • July

    Resource Efficiency Managers have the challenging task of helping agencies create and maintain reliable and resilient energy to power high-energy laser weapons, like this one. (Image courtesy of DASA(R&T))

    Resource Efficiency Managers support modernization of defense industrial base

    At the forefront of this mission is the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) program, which brings the best minds in the free world together to introduce new technologies and processes that extract every possible unit of energy from the most fuel-efficient and resilient energy-system technologies available. REMs, often called the “energy boots on the ground,” provide vital expertise to develop site energy plans encompassing projects that achieve sustainable, renewable, and secure energy management.

  • June

    Army Sgt. 1st Class George Hummel, a biomedical equipment specialist with the 807th Medical Command, inputs data while maintaining medical equipment at the Medical Equipment Concentration Site for the 88th Readiness Division in Ogden, Utah, April 17. Huntsville Center’s Resource Efficiency Manager Program provides the 88th RD with site energy plans encompassing projects that achieve sustainable energy management at the 88th RD’s more than 250 sites located across 19 states.

    REM’s exceed energy savings goals for the Army Reserve

    With 579 facilities totaling more than 10 million square feet of facility space, Rachel Kemper, REM for the U.S. Army Reserve’s 88th Readiness Division, headquartered on Fort McCoy, Wis., continues to deliver the program and exceeded energy savings goals for the 88th RD throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

  • April

    A Resource Efficiency Manager recently instituted a 50001 Ready team to meet energy and water security resilience and reduction goals at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Radford, Virginia. Huntsville Center manages the REM program for the Army.

    Resource Energy Manager improves munition plant’s energy resilience

    A Resource Efficiency Manager attending 2019 Energy Exchange and REM Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, received updated 50001 Ready information that led him on a path to improve energy efficiency at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Virginia.

  • March

    John Trudell, Huntsville Center Resource Efficiency Manager program manager, and Dan Howett, Federal Account Representative, Carrier Corporation, discusses the Chillers 101 presentation Howett made during the Army REM Workshop 2020 at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus March 10-12.

    Workshop networking for resource efficiency managers key for Huntsville Center energy program success

    The Army’s fifth Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) Workshop connected its more than 25 attendees with skills necessary to ensure the Army’s resource specialists can achieve federal energy reduction mandates.
  • Georgia Power Company representatives Jon Lewis and Heather Cantrell, Georgia Power Company brief Huntsville Center Utility Energy Services Contracting program staff Vick Peltier, Chad Edwards and Brandy Wilkerson during a meeting at Huntsville Center Feb.12. The meeting promoted a cohesive and collaborative project environment for a contract at Warner Robins-Air Logistics Center at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

    Maintaining contracts vital to utility, energy program

    A $52 million contract (with a capacity of more than $200 million), awarded in 2017, supports Warner Robins-Air Logistics Complex with energy savings, resilience and security improvements for the principal enterprise located at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

  • October

    Ron Brook, Huntsville Center Fuels program manager, updates his program's obligation numbers Sept. 23. August and September are two of the busiest months for the Center when stakeholders’ requests for projects surge as they obligate money before the end of the fiscal year.

    Center closes fiscal 2019 with $2 billion in obligations

    Of the $2.2 billion obligated, 44% went to support the Army and 37% for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Nine percent was dedicated to Army Corps of Engineers Information Technology. Four percent was earmarked for the Air Force and 3% for the Navy, and projects for NASA came in at 1%. More than $25 million was obligated in grants and cooperative agreements.

  • May

    Pictured is Camp Robinson, near Little Rock, Arkansas, where the Army National Guard held its annual energy training April 8-12, 2019. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, provided instructors to help ensure National Guard energy managers have the tools to meet Army energy goals.

    Huntsville Center gives Army National Guard tools to meet Army energy goals

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, provided instructors for the Army National Guard’s annual energy training April 8-12 at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  • April

    Members of Huntsville Center participate in refresher training March 28, 2019, on the topic of Energy Savings Performance Contracting during a three-day class for which members of the Department of Energy visited Huntsville Center to lead the training in Huntsville, Alabama.

    Dept. of Energy experts visit Huntsville Center to lead ESPC training

    Instructors from the Department of Energy visited the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, in late March to lead training for key project managers and engineers assigned to the Engineering Directorate here on the topic of Energy Savings Performance Contracting.

  • March

    Karim Manji, Installation Management Command Sustainment speaks to Huntsville Center's Resource Efficiency Managers gatherd at the Center Feb. 28.

    Huntsville Center workshop good for taxpayers, environment

    Resource efficiency managers from around the world attended Huntsville Center’s REM workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 26-28. Huntsville Center’s REM program provides contracted subject-matter experts to Department of Defense branch installations to increase energy program effectiveness by identifying programs and practices to reduce energy and water costs and meet resilience and security requirements.

  • January

    Workers install portions of the 8.5 megawatt-per-hour battery system at Fort Carson, Colorado. Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting program coordinated the project designed to reduce peak electricity use costs, especially during the summer cooling season.

    Huntsville Center ESPC program delivers Fort Carson energy storage system

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting program managers and contracting specialists coordinated the project with AECOM, the energy service contractor, and the garrison’s directorate of public works.

  • Huntsville Center engineers solutions by asking, 'What's your vision'

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville does more than assist global stakeholders in accomplishing their project goals. Huntsville Center helps organizations reach their vision.

  • September

    Energy team attends DOE event of the year

    More than two dozen representatives from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville attended the Federal Energy Management Program’s Energy Exchange Aug. 21-23 in Cleveland.
  • An Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program solar microgrid project at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, is managed by the Sacramento District. A fiscal 2016 ERCIP project added additional rooftop solar panels and a second battery energy storage system.

    Huntsville Center finalizes ERCIP updates

    The biggest update in years to the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation process has been finalized after months of work from members of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, and the energy managers they partner with throughout the Army.

  • August

    Shah Alam, Huntsville Center ESPC post-award team lead, addresses attendees at the second annual Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop Aug.1 at the Bevill Center on the University of Alabama Huntsville campus. More than 70 government and industry representatives shared information, experiences, and lessons learned during the event.

    Second annual ESPC workshop dialogue focuses on communication

    More than 70 government and industry representatives shared information, experiences, and lessons learned during the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s second annual Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop July 31-Aug.1 at the Bevill Center on the University of Alabama Huntsville campus.

  • July

    Dominic Ragucci, program manager for the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, leads a group discussion as part of an ERCIP workshop at Idaho National Laboratory held June 12-14.

    ERCIP partners meet to revamp project validation process

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation team members met with their ERCIP partners from throughout the Army for a workshop at Idaho National Laboratory June 12-14 to update the program’s guidance and requirements.

  • May

    Jack Porter, chief of the Business Operations and Integration Division for the Fort Huachuca Directorate of Public Works, speaks to leaders and community members of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during a public unveiling of a multimillion-dollar energy-savings infrastructure project awarded through a Huntsville Center Energy Savings Performance Contracting task order award.

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Division awards task order to Schneider Electric for Huachuca project

    Thanks to Huntsville Center’s latest Energy Savings Performance Contracting task order award, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is on track to receive a series of multimillion-dollar energy-savings upgrades to existing infrastructure – all without the burden of upfront capital costs.

  • February

    Lieutenant General Edward M. Daley, Army Materiel Command deputy commanding general and event host, addresses the crowd during the Redstone Arsenal Solar and Battery Project ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb.23. The new 114-acre, renewable solar energy complex, located on Magazine Road, generates about 10 megawatt, alternating current, on-site solar renewable energy.

    Huntsville Center solar energy, storage system project enhances Redstone Arsenal’s readiness

    Redstone Arsenal's new 114-acre, renewable solar energy complex generates about 10 megawatt, alternating current, on-site solar renewable energy.

  • June

    William J. Eggleston III, right, a safety engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's Safety Office, explains a solar array project at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to summer hire, Lorraine Rosello Del Valle; Erika Cosper, a Pathways Intern; and Jacob Morrison, a summer hire during a recent trip to Fort Campbell. Work on the solar array began in 2012 when the Fort Campbell Directorate of Public Works partnered with the Huntsville Center and the Department of Energy to put together a renewable energy plan for the post.

    Phase II increases Fort Campbell solar array wattage

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony June 9 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, celebrated the completion of the final phase of Fort Campbell’s 5 megawatt solar array.
  • From left to right, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Riley Cmd. Sgt. Major James Collins; Albert "Chip" Marin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville; Joseph Cvetas, Executive Vice President, Southland Industries; H. Sandy Walker, Fort Riley Public Works; and Col. John Lawrence, Fort Riley Garrison Commander, turn ceremonial dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony June 13 at Fort Riley, Kansas. The ceremony highlighted the award of an energy savings contract to Southland Energy and commemorated the start of the construction phase.The contract is overseen by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

    Fort Riley leaders, partners break ground on energy saving contract

    This first phase of a multi-phased ESPC project at Fort Riley will provide $37,721,463 in facility improvements across 280 buildings.
  • Kaitlyn Davis, a summer intern at the Huntsville Center, accesses a library of training tutorials developed by the Center. These tutorials were designed to capture the organization’s institutional knowledge as senior employees begin to exit the workforce.

    Huntsville Center harnesses technology to retain institutional knowledge

    Huntsville Center harnesses video capture technology to retain institutional knowledge as seasoned employees leave the workforce.