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  • July

    People sitiing at a table viewing a MS Teams screen.

    Energy experts converge for annual energy efficiency workshop

    This year’s workshop emphasized the benefits of collaboration between the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

  • December

    Photo of people standing at a tabel. In October, Laura Riddle, UESC project director, Martha Kiene, Fort Belvoir Power Reliability Enhancement Program Chief, Harry Goradia, HQ USACE engineer, Keith Tyler, HQ USACE resource efficiency manager, and Charles Heimer, Huntsville Center REM, manned an exhibit at the Pentagon during Energy Action Month to bring awareness to available programs that reduce energy cost and consumption.

    Huntsville Center, HQ USACE represent at Pentagon energy event

    Energy Action Month is a federal government-wide program that promotes sustainability and energy efficiency, while encouraging the smart use of energy, water, and transportation resources.

  • April

    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees receive a site briefing by a SunPower Corporation contractor before visiting a solar array construction site on Redstone Arsenal in 2017. Projects like the Arsenal’s The 10 MW solar array with a 1-MW storage system undergo reviews by the Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation team before they are submitted to compete for Department of Defense funding.

    Validation team meeting climate change criteria changes

    The ERCIP validation team is opening any Fiscal 2024 projects that don’t have carbon free solutions and updating the projects to fulfill the criteria.

  • 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.