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Defense Energy Support Center Facilitates Renewable
Power Purchases
April 30, 2003
The Defense Energy Support Center's (DESC's) mission is to provide the Department
of Defense (DOD) and other government agencies with comprehensive energy
solutions in the most effective and economical manner possible. DESC is taking an
active role in Federal renewable power purchases by routinely including requests for
prices on renewable power in their competitive electricity market solicitations. Both
the U.S. Air Force and DOE have requested that DESC seek renewable power pricing
when soliciting for competitive electricity for their facilities. The result is that DESC
asks for renewable power pricing in almost all their electricity solicitations.

Recently, DESC awarded a 2-year contract to BP that will provide between 5 to 10

percent renewable power to four Department of the Navy installations and three
U.S. Air Force Bases in Texas, for a total of 29.5 million kilowatthours per year (see
table for details). In addition, DESC assisted with the contract modification resulting
in Dyess Air Force Base's purchase of 80 million kilowatthours of wind power (see
article on the cover page). "Our customers' need only contact us, we are glad to
assist them with their purchase of renewable power products," said John Nelson of
DESC. The recent purchases by the DOD in Texas have clearly established the DOD
as a leading purchaser of renewable energy in Texas and the Nation, once again
demonstrating Federal leadership by example.

Air Force and Navy Renewable Power Purchases in Texas

Facility Kilowatthours

Navy - Corpus Christi Naval Air Station 6.6 million

Air Force - Shepherd AFB 6.4 million

Navy - Reserve Facility 6.0 million

Air Force - Laughlin AFB 4.2 million

Navy - Ingleside Naval Shipyard 2.4 million

Air Force - Goodfellow AFB 2.2 million

Navy - Kingsville Naval Air Station 1.7 million

The recent Texas purchases however were not the first renewable energy
purchases by DESC. In 2002, DESC contracted for renewable energy on behalf of
the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. and the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) in Texas. Through a supply agreement with
Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc., more than 8 percent of the electricity needs
of the Army's Fort McNair, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Adelphi
Laboratories are being generated by a combination of wind power and landfill gas
through the end of 2004. (See "Army Shows Renewable Energy Leadership in the
Nation's Capital," FEMP Focus, November 2002.) For NASA's Johnson Space Center,
TXU Energy will provide 10 million kilowatthours of renewable power.

For more information or assistance with a renewable power purchase, please

contact John Nelson of DESC at 703-767-8153 or john.nelson@dla.mil .

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