Financial Optimization of Electricity Security Assets at Military Installations: Including Case Studies of Dover Air Force Base, Fort Benning, and MCAGCC Twentynine Palms

摘要

This study is designed to contribute one helpful piece to a much larger puzzle: how best to invest in and pay for energy security at U.S. military installations. It does so by reviewing the tangible net revenues and cost reductions that current and future electricity assets on installations can achieve in energy markets, beyond whatever value is placed on their protection of mission or grid independence. The assets, such as conventional and renewable on-site generation, advanced energy management control systems, battery storage, and microgrids are generally put into service to enhance electricity security and control, but their revenue and cost saving potential from providing energy market services need to be understood in order to make optimal investment decisions and to create support for the acceleration and replication of high-value electricity security activities at appropriate installations.