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DOD & GSA federal efforts
Managing more than 300,000 buildings on some 500 installations, including barracks, data
centers, office buildings and hospitals,
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the Department of Defense (DOD) is the single largest
energy consumer in the Nation.
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Because of its size, the DOD recognizes it can use its own
facilities to overcome development and deployment barriers for promising technologies,
including demand response and advanced metering infrastructure.
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DOD environmental
research programs foster technological innovations, assist in developing technologies, and
accelerate cost-effective technology transitions into commercial markets through collaborative
efforts among federal agencies, academia and industry. For example, DOD is demonstrating
enhanced demand response program participation for Naval District Washington (NDW), the
regional provider of common operating support to Naval installations within a 100-mile radius of
the Pentagon. NDW installations encompass more than 4,000 square miles in portions of
Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
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NDW has invested in advanced meters and
meter data systems, and, as a part of its overall energy reduction strategy, plans to integrate its
energy management systems and tools to demonstrate the ability to cost-effectively and securely
participate in demand response programs.
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The NDW project will also determine how to
transfer the technology and processes to other DOD services.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) owns and leases over 354 million square feet
in 9,600 federal buildings,
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and more than 30 federal agencies depend on the GSA’s Energy
Division to assist with energy procurement.
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In 2012, the GSA Energy Division assisted with
two separate wholesale demand response transactions for approximately “24 MW of demand
response (~8 MW annually over a three year term)” for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
facilities in NYISO and GSA facilities in PJM.
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DOD, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environmental
Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), “New Installation Energy and Water Technology
Demonstrations Announced for FY 2013,” December 13, 2012 [Press release],
http://www.serdp.org/News-and-
Events/News-Announcements/Program-News/New-installation-energy-and-water-technology-demonstrations-
announced-for-FY-2013.
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DOD, SERDP and ESTCP, “Energy,” http://www.serdp.org/Program-Areas/Energy-and-Water/Energy.
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Jeffrey Marqusee, “The Contribution of Technology to Sustainable Energy Panel Discussion,” presented
at the 2013 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Conference: Laying the Foundation for a Sustainable Energy Future: Legal
and Policy Challenges, George Washington University Law School, April 11, 1013,
http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/2012-
2013Events/Pages/LayingtheFoundationforaSustainableEnergyFutureLegalandPolicyChallenges.aspx.
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Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), “About Naval District Washington,”
http://www.cnic.navy.mil/ndw/About/index.htm
.
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DOD, SERDP and ESTCP, “Demonstrating Enhanced Demand Response Program Participation for
Naval District Washington (EW-201343),”
http://docs.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Energy-and-
Water/Energy/Microgrids-and-Storage/EW-201343/EW-201343/(language)/eng-US.
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GSA, “Facilities Management Overview,”
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104476?utm_source=PBS&utm_medium=print-
radio&utm_term=HDR_1_Bldgs_facilities&utm_campaign=shortcuts.
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WorldEnergy, “GSA Awards World Energy 5-Year Energy Management Contract,” September 8, 2010
[Press release],
http://staging.worldenergy.com/news/gsa-awards-world-energy-5-year-energy-management-
contract/.
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WorldEnergy, “Demand Response Auctions help GSA Generate More Competition and Keep More
Revenue from Energy Curtailment Participation,” March 1, 2012 [Press release],