Ingenuity Winter 2018

Pond Ingenuity Winter 2018 11 Center at Tyndall AFB, FL, provided insight into the Air Force’s approach for implementing IEPs. According to Soto, Air Force energy plans will include energy assurance, as well as energy conversation measures and opportunities for renewable energy. Energy managers are expected to lead the process with planners helping to facilitate integration with the base’s existing IMP. It is the goal of the Air Force to develop 39 holistic installation energy assurance plans over the next five years. A draft IMP energy assurance component template is expected sometime in early 2018. Pond is the sole consultant that U.S. Army Material Command has tasked with integrating energy and resource consumption management into the installation planning process through the development of Sustainability Component Plans (SCPs) – now called Installation Energy Plans – IEPs. Over the past two years, Pond has completed SCPs for McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Anniston Army Depot, and Letterkenny Army Depot. These plans, which fold into the UFC 2-100-01-defined master planning process, direct a structured approach to selecting and prioritizing energy (as well as water, waste, and stormwater) projects and programs that result in more sustainable installation performance. Incorporating an energy modeling analysis (provided by USACE’s Net Zero Planner), the SCP provides installation personnel a strategy for selecting energy efficiency improvement packages that ultimately provide the most return on investment. DoD Resiliency Policy In recent years, natural events such as Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey and Irma have caused energy disruptions on military Installation Energy Plans At the Energy Exchange 2017 conference, leadership from all military services stressed the importance of formulating an enterprise-wide Installation Energy Plan (IEP). Presenters from each of the services laid out their implementation strategies for developing these plans and reviewed basic concepts for energy and sustainability planning, such as data collection, auditing and analysis, and project prioritization. Installation planning efforts focused specifically on energy and water are the direct result of a March 2016 memorandum from the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) requiring each service to develop and brief to Congress an energy master plan for installations in their portfolio which are the largest energy consumers (the top 75%). According to Walter Ludwig, senior program manager at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, (Energy, Installations, and Environment) the IEPs are the unified document that provides a holistic path forward for installations to address energy use and cost reduction, increase energy resilience, and contribute to mission readiness and assurance. The energy plans are meant to integrate and align with existing Installation Master Plans (e.g., IMPs) and with all existing DoD guidance. The OSD is pushing each of the Services to have their plans complete by the end of March 2019. Dan Soto, the Energy Analysis Division Chief for the Air Force Civil Engineer installations leading to critical mission impacts. With the growing importance of resiliency as a key planning concern, each service is beginning to define specific metrics around this somewhat nebulous term. In February 2017, Army Directive 2017-07 (Installation Energy and Water Security Policy) was published by the Secretary of the Army, which requires installations to ensure quality power and water to sustain critical missions for a minimum of 14 days. This directive applies to all landholding commands and installations at enduring Active Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve installations, sites, infrastructure, and facilities operated and/ or maintained by Army funds inside and outside the United States. None of the other Services have issued any directives specific to installation energy or water security, though Air Force resiliency standards are expected to be published sometime in 2018. Going forward, it will be crucial that planners and facility specialists at Pond work alongside stakeholders at the installations to incorporates this new guidance into the master planning process. Mark Kreitz | Project Manager Steve Moes | Program Manager Resilience – The ability to anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to changing conditions and withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from disruption. Executive Order 13653 It is the goal of the Air Force to develop 39 holistic installation energy assurance plans over the next five years. Natural events such as Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey and Irma have caused energy disruptions on military installations leading to critical mission