Photo By Scott Sturkol | A training area powered by solar energy is shown Oct. 18, 2021, on South Post at Fort...... read more read more
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Every October, the Department of Defense and the Army observe the month as Energy Action Month to raise awareness of the critical role that energy resilience plays in mission readiness and to drive behavior change.
For 2021, the Army’s theme for Energy Action Month is “Power to Win.” According to the office for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment (ASAIEE), the month also highlights the importance of everyone’s efforts to achieve energy security and resilience throughout the Army.
Secure and reliable access to energy in operational missions and on installations is essential to ensuring that the Army is ready to deploy, fight, and win across the entire spectrum of conflict, the ASAIEE website states.
Enhanced capabilities and warfighting operations based on concepts like multidomain operations “require secure and reliable access to energy to achieve the levels of mobility and lethality required by the Army's operational forces. The Army continues to increase operational effectiveness, range, lethality, and readiness by reducing the dependency on energy.”
Solar energy is one form of renewable energy that is incorporated throughout Fort McCoy, thus reflecting DOD’s strategy of “power to win.” Solar-power additions at Fort McCoy include pedestrian-crossing and stop signs with flashing LED lights.
There’s also solar collectors installed on several buildings on post, According to the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW). More than 70 latrines on the Fort McCoy Range Complex are powered or heated by solar photovoltaic panels as well as other systems that require low energy intake.
Staff members are always looking at ways that renewable energy can contribute to energy savings at Fort McCoy, DPW officials said. Though the use of solar power is not as widespread as other installations, it is part of many of Fort McCoy’s energy-savings initiatives throughout the post.
Across the federal government, October is also Energy Awareness Month. The U.S. Department of Energy page about the month, https://www.energy.gov/eere/femp/energy-awareness-month, states the month is a “celebratory time in which the federal government is ‘Leading by Example’ by providing leadership in energy management and building optimization, energy resilience and security, and the use of advanced and distributed energy technologies.”
Through the Federal Energy Management Program and the Department of Energy, agencies are helped to meet federal energy efficiency and renewable energy laws and requirements, the website states.
“Agencies are making tremendous progress toward these requirements by implementing energy- and water-management projects throughout the federal government,” the website states. “Whether these projects are implemented campus-wide or in individual facilities, every action taken by hard-working employees in U.S. defense and civilian agencies contributes toward strengthening the security and resilience of our federal infrastructure.”
To learn more ideas about how to save energy, check the Department of Energy’s energy saver webpage at https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/energy-saver. And learn more about Energy Action Month in the Army by visiting https://www.asaie.army.mil/Public/ES/energyactionmonth.html.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
(The Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works contributed to this article.)
| Date Taken: | 10.21.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.21.2021 16:34 |
| Story ID: | 407746 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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