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  • June

    Molten metal fills molds on the foundry floor at Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, April 23, 2026.

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience Program

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville plays a central role in advancing the Army’s energy resilience efforts through the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, ERCIP, a Department of Defense initiative designed to ensure reliable power and water for mission-critical operations.

  • August

    Two Brazilian officers looking at solar panels

    Brazilian soldiers gain energy insight

    Two Brazilian army engineering officers visited Redstone Arsenal and Huntsville Center Aug. 21 to exchange information regarding energy projects.

  • April

    A photo of solar panels.

    Microgrid certification enhances energy program

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP) currently has nine microgrid projects in construction, 46 projects in the design process, and 48 potential projects coming their way.

  • June

    REM workshop 2022

    REM workshop assists with prioritizing work according to policy

    The Resource Efficiency Managers in attendance are all contracted “employees” whose sole purpose is improving their assigned installation’s energy programs by identifying projects and practices to reduce energy and water costs.

  • 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.

  • October

    The senseFly eBee X fixed-wing unmanned aircraft system takes to the air just outside the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama, during a preliminary survey flight Oct. 1, 2019.

    Unmanned aircraft tested at Huntsville Center

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center’s newly acquired unmanned aircraft system took to the skies above the main building here at 475 Quality Circle for its first formal set of survey flights Oct. 1, 2019.

  • August

    Will Eggleston, a safety manager with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, goes over introductions with a group of more than 70 contractors and government personnel attending a one-day joint workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, July 24, 2019. The group included representatives from the 13 energy-service companies that fall under Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order.

    Energy Division’s expertise attracts dozens of contractors for dual workshops

    Two Energy Division workshops brought dozens of contractors from throughout the country to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, July 25.

  • 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.

  • January

    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

    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.

  • June

    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.

  • 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.

  • August

    Huntsville Center mechanical engineer Scott L. Sheffield and Energy Engineering Analysis Program Manager Raúl E. Alonso discuss HVAC system features detailed in the building plans for the commissary at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Huntsville Center's EEAP team is preparing a comprehensive energy reduction plan for the Defense Commissary Agency's West Area sites and toured the Redstone facility to get a better understanding of commissary operations and typical energy consumption.

    Energy Division teams up with Defense Commissary Agency to reduce energy consumption

    Huntsville Center's Energy Division is assisting the Defense Commissary Agency in developing a comprehensive energy reduction plan that delineates the path DeCA must take to achieve mandated energy reduction goals for its West Area sites.

  • July

    Third-party acquisition tools allow agencies to do more with reduced budgets

    Using a Utility Energy Services Contract through Huntsville Center to leverage third-party financing for energy conservation infrastructure upgrades is paying big dividends for the Intelligence Community Campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

  • June

    Greg Grisson, Pennyrile Electric Cooperative Corp. President/CEO, Tony Dotson, University of Kentucky Veterans Resource Center coordinator, Kenya Stump, assistant director for renewable energy for the Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence, Fort Campbell Garrison Commander Col. David "Buck" Dellinger and Director of Public Works Jim Duttweiler break ground May 27 at the site of a new solar array on post that will eventually provide 5 megawatts of renewable energy.

    Construction begins on largest solar array in Kentucky

    A May 27 groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a capped landfill on Fort Campbell marked the beginning of construction of the largest solar array in Kentucky. Huntsville Center's Utility Energy Services Contracting (UESC) and Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) programs are providing project management oversight in coordination with Fort Campbell for this solar project.

  • May

    Todd Dirmeyer, the Army's 2014 Energy Manager of the Year from Fort Hunter Liggett, California, shares his installation's Net Zero strategy with Army Resource Efficiency Managers during an April conference at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

    ECIP projects inching Fort Hunter Liggett toward Net Zero

    This summer Fort Hunter Liggett will begin the design phase of a $22 million Energy Conservation Investment Program (ECIP) project that, when complete, will get the California installation to Net Zero energy use.

  • April

    Chuck Beach, the Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) at Fort Knox, Kentucky, talks about third-party financing options with Rob Mackey, Huntsville Center's Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) program manager April 15 during the Army's first REM Workshop.

    Army’s first resource efficiency manager workshop filled with passion for energy management

    The Army’s first Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) Workshop was April 15-17 on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Huntsville Center, which manages the REM program, hosted the event to enhance the knowledge base of the growing network of REMs across the Army and Army Reserve.

  • March

    From the top of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dam at Stennis Lock on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi, Hon. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, asks lock operations manager Rickey Saucer about the lighting in the dam recreation area parking lot. Darcy and Kate Brandt, Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council of Environmental Quality, visited the Mobile District lock and dam Jan. 21 to learn about their energy and sustainability efforts with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Through the first-ever Energy Savings Performance Contract for a civil works project managed by Huntsville Center, Mobile District is retrofitting and replacing lighting at 46 locations along the 234-mile waterway, which will result in guaranteed savings of more than $172,700 in the first year alone.

    Assisting USACE, federal agencies with Energy Portfolio Management approach

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is executing a holistic energy portfolio management approach for helping Army organizations and other federal agencies achieve federal energy mandates, reduce energy consumption and enhance energy security.