1. Transformative Reductions in
Operational Energy Consumption
briefer: Mr. Ross Roley
U.S. Pacific Command Energy Innovation Office Lead
TROPEC Program Manager
May 2015
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Challenges
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EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY
TROPICAL STORM INTENSITY
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TRAFFICKING
DISASTER
RESPONSE
EMERGING
MILITARIES
TERRORISM
• More than Half of World’s
Population (3.43 B)
• 100s languages
• 52% of Earth’s surface
• 36 countries
• 16 time zones
• World’s 6 largest armed
forces
• 5 of 7 U.S. Mutual Defense
Treaties
• Nuclear weapons,
unbalanced military forces
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Operational Energy & Logistics
Logistics are required for successful missions and HA/DR response:
• Water and food must be distributed.
• Power must be supplied.
• Infrastructure must be developed.
• Sustainment of logistics must be possible.
CHALLENGES:
• Tyranny of distance in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Cost and time to ship goods to areas of need.
• Vulnerability of supply lines and distribution of goods/ services
with limited transportation infrastructure.
SOLUTIONS:
• Identify easy to use, point-of-use solutions to reduce logistical
demand and increase resiliency.
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5 W’s and an H of TROPEC
WHO:
WHAT:
Identification and assessment of
contingency basing material / non-
material solutions to reduce op-energy
consumption in tropical regions.
WHERE:
- Controlled laboratory environment
- Operational field environment in the
PACOM AOR
WHEN:
Engaged in multiple exercises and events,
offering timeline flexibility to fee payers.
WHY:
Reduce risk and increase mission capability
by enabling greater contingency base
sustainability.
HOW:
- Rigorous experimentation plans
- Integrate into ops/exercises to assess
impact
- Provide direct access to operators
- Coalesce DOD and DOE expertise
- Develop diverse partnerships to ID and
transition promising solutions
- Provide feedback to USG decision makers
TROPEC is an assessment platform for expeditionary camp solutions.
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Unique Value Provided by TROPEC
For Whole of Government
- Integration with USPACOM
exercises and operations
- Warfighter and technical
feedback
- Tropical environment utility focus
- Joint environment
- DOD and DOE expertise
- Assessment and solution-search
platform available to decision
makers
- Now offering 50/50 cost share
For Developers
- Technical and operational
feedback for improvement from
DOD and DOE
- Facilitated introduction to DOD
and transition agents
- Feedback to help improve
solutions
- Independent, government
assessment
- No cost for innovators to
participate
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Camp Op Energy Improvements
Space
conditioning:
Duct Tee - 2
tents/ECU
ECUs: Variable-
capacity, constant
speed
Electronics:
High-temp
servers
Shelters:
Shade/radiant
barrier/insulation
Lighting: High
efficiency area
lighting + solar
powerGenerators: More
efficient & flex fuel
Microgrids
TROPEC-assessed solutions have shown ways to improve camp energy consumption.
Shelters:
Rigid-walled
Water:
Water generation
Water:
Water reuse
Lighting:
LED
Assessments have
covered a large
range of end uses,
showing savings
potential across the
camp structure
Controls:
Occupancy
controls
Electronics:
Efficient
server cooling
‘Soldier’
Power
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TROPEC
Transformative Reductions in
Operational Energy
Consumption
Innovators submit energy-
saving technologies through
Innovations Network (I-NET)
• 111 submitted to date
and reviewed for relevance,
readiness, and results
• 81 accepted for evaluation
High-impact technologies
are first assessed in controlled
environments, then assessed in
field
environments
• 25 accepted for lab assessment
• 43 accepted for field assessment
Potential transition partners
are identified and
opportunities within and
beyond DoD are explored
• Partners to sponsor TROPEC
assessments:
NSRDEC, PM-FSS,
PM-SWAR, MCSC, NAVFAC
Solutions identification
Solutions evaluation
Program transition
High-impact technology Assessment venue Estimated savings
Insulation/shading Thailand, 2012 >30%
Controls Philippines, 2013 30–60%
Variable-speed/other ECUs Thailand/Philippines <25%
Operational changes Philippines, 2013 >30%
Hybrid power systems Pending (2014) 40–60%
Smart microgrids Pending (2014) >50%
Water recycling Unplanned >30%
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• Deflated shelter snagged on generator
• Tropical storm winds caused one of the dog
bones to fail causing the liner to sag
• Vestibule adaptor tore off end wall at welded seam during
high wind conditions allowing water to infiltrate the shelter
Suitability Observations
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• Mold growth on the shade canopy mesh
• Shade bracket came off vertical support
member during a tropical storm
• Significant amount of water infiltration and
condensation in shelters
Suitability Observations
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• Tropical storm damage
– Broken solar shade support
poles
Suitability Observations
• Light cart had significant water
infiltration and presence of
corrosion despite surface coatings
• SuperCLU adhesives beginning to
fail plus corrosion evident
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Summary
Logistics needs in support of HA/DR response and military
missions are similar.
Implementation of solutions that are able to provide needs at the
point of use, as well as reduce dependencies on outside inputs
(such as fuel/energy) can lead to:
1) reduced response time,
2) a more resilient region,
3) carrying out a sustainable responses,
4) reduced mission cost and vulnerability.
TROPEC aims to identify, assess and provide information on
such solutions across the technology and non-materiel spectrum.
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Questions
www.TROPEC.net
Access the website to find:
- Description of solution areas of interest
- Short summaries of field assessment findings
- Short summaries of lab assessment findings
- Contact information for TROPEC partner members
- Links to other DOD operational energy partners
NOTES: The Asia Pacific region is characterized by a number of challenges to include
a large distance to cover
diversity of language, economic and military might,
varied mission sets,
and intense weather and natural events
Some challenges we face here in the Pacific:
Rebalance is both changing focus to the Pacific and within the Pacific as historically we tended to think of North Asia concerns.
The US Department of Defense has organized how it looks at the world into six geographic combatant commands for the purpose of reducing span of issues for decision makers and staffs. PACOM is the only one of these that touches each of the others. This fact means that we have to be more concerned with what is going on in each of them; EUCOM is largely unconcerned with what goes on in SOUTHCOM, for example, but we cannot exclusively focus like that. This red ring represents the most likely area of conflict (as well as seam issues with all the other combatant commands). North Korea and China get all the attention now but the border between India and Pakistan remains a dangerous place – and both are nuclear armed. As an aside, if you took that ring and slid it the width of itself to the right you would have ¼ of the world’s population; if you added the current ring in you would have 1/3 of the worlds population. And there is more people in that ring than were on the earth in 1900.
- Counter terrorism remains a challenge. There are many different countries and cultures in this arc that are impacted by counter terrorism. This provides an example of PACOM’s focus on building relationships. The “much of us” can accomplish more than the “each of us”.
Natural Disasters seem to hit Pacific nations with more frequency and greater scale or at least with more speed than in other parts of the world. Africa has droughts and famines but those are slow moving. Typhoons in Bangladesh, Earthquakes in Nepal, Fires in Australia all happen quickly and have to be responded to quickly. [see next graphic]
While Rebalance to Pacific is a whole of government strategy with diplomatic, economic, and relational components, PACOM is a military organization and we have military concerns. Our planning team works a variety of contingencies but most importantly we spend a lot of time working to not have to go to war. Relationships and cooperation provide flexibility in all of the elements.
NOTE: HOW DO WE ACCOMPLISH THIS; ONE ANSWER is TECHNOLOGY SHARING I.E., Energy initiatives. Hence TROPEC
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Take-away:
First conditional change that drives our rebalance strategy
Phase 0 activities we contend with daily, weekly and monthly
HADR is the unifying threat that can create conditions
U.S. Pacific Command has a variety of energy initiatives displayed here from local to regional on the vertical axis, and from installation to operational energy across the horizontal axis. I will highlight some of these that I believe are of interest to this audience. The PACOM energy office started in 2008 when the Governor of Hawaii announced the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative with a goal to make the islands 70% clean by 2030. PACOM was asked to partner with the state to achieve this goal because the Defense Department is the single largest energy consumer in Hawaii, representing 15% of the state’s demand. Since then, we have expanded outward to the international partners in the region and inward to core functions of the combatant command.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
2012 OECIF funding
25% reduction in total energy use by 2014
85% reduction in HVAC energy use by 2015
50% reduction in total energy use by 2016
TROPEC: Partnership between PACOM (DOD Pacific Command), NAVFAC (Systems Experimentation Division-formerly MEC, Marine Forces Pacific Experimentation Center—very recently renamed), ORNL, and LBNL; Led by Major Greg Joseph out of PACOM.
GOAL: Transformative change in operational energy use, not a small step. Goals: 25 (near term, fall 2014) to 50% camp-wide (long-term).
TARGET: Energy performance in tropical climates (most technology evaluations to date focused on hot, very dry desert climate); tropical is very different (warm, very wet, vegetative)! Tropical location affects solutions.
SOLUTIONS IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION: These are the primary functions of TROPEC.
The Innovations Network (I-NET) is our technology intake portal (web based).
Over 100 technologies submitted to date. 81 accepted (passed the three R’s – are relevant, ready, provide results (i.e., have impact)).
Technologies advance to different levels of evaluation (paper reviews, lab or field assessments) based on their success.
To date, 25 technologies assessed in lab and 29 in field.
TABLE: High-Impact Technology Areas shown alongside activities for each & savings. [Note sums of savings exceed 100% because there are heavy interactions between technologies implemented simultaneously, so we are not claiming savings exceeding 100%.]
Field assessments take place in Pacific theater within military exercises (Marines touch technologies).
PROGRAM TRANSITION: Final step of TROPEC program is to transition it away from OEPP funding to self-sufficiency. About 2/3 way thru seed funding and have the partners shown on board and expecting to provide funding to support TROPEC technology assessments – more to come and hoping to reach some partners outside DOD (that can benefit from expeditionary technologies – e.g., First Responders in disasters: mobility required).
One unexpected surprise is TROPEC has been able to work with innovators, sometimes partnering them, to get better and new products for expeditionary energy challenges (lighting and controls to date).
Overall, very pleased with where we are; building strong collaborations; receiving, identifying, and assessing some great technologies; transition going well; expecting large base-wide impact from suite of technologies currently in pipeline; on track to meet goals.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
Building successful responses, missions and even resiliency require basic necessities (food, water and power), the means to distribute those necessities and the ability to provide them for the duration of need.
Asia-Pacific has special challenges when it comes to providing these basic necessities, to include the great distances to be traveled, the resulting vulnerability of supply lines to piracy, natural disasters and economic impacts as well as the cost and time required to ship goods to impacted areas.
Thus, if we can find solutions that are both able to provide needs at the point of use, as well as reduce their dependence on outside inputs (such as energy) we can help to 1) reduce response time, 2) build a more resilient region, 3) enable sustainable responses, 4) reduce mission cost and vulnerability.
