Armed Forces' Gigawatt Initiative for Renewable Energy Creating Great Interest

摘要

Over the past decade, the United States armed forces have come to see energy security as a critical component of their mission—and have realized that their current energy supply is unacceptably insecure. In order to "harden" installations at home and abroad, the military is increasingly turning to renewable, locally available sources of fuel and electric power. At domestic facilities, the military has started reducing its dependence on the local electrical grid through the installation of new renewable sources, energy storage, and microgrid capability.