Sid Saunders - JBSA - Sustainable Energy Innovation Center

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Joint Base San Antonio Joint Base San Antonio Sustainable Energy Innovation CenterSustainable Energy Innovation Center

Sid Saunders

Defense Transformation Institute

February 15, 2011

DTI Goals

• Promote economic development on and around  military bases in San Antonio

• Enhance the military value of local missions  • Reduce the military installation management

cost• Accelerate the construction of new base

facilities for military missions • Leverage military assets and capabilities

through enhanced community partnerships

DTI Projects and Activities

• Established agreements with installations and military organizations to foster collaborations.

• Supporting the expansion of installations and public private partnerships to enhance growth opportunities and reduce installation costs.

• Sponsored a number of workshops in community partnerships to explore new collaboration models.

• In collaboration with of JBSA sponsored Sustainable Energy Workshop on June 9, 2010

Defense Transformation Institutepresents

Joint Base San Antonio

Sustainable Energy Workshop 

Siemens

Sustainable Energy Workshop

• Attended by 185

• Was a good review of JBSA and the each installation energy goals and challenges

• Provided introduction of community support organizations and activities– CPS , UTSA, Texas A&M, SWRI, Startech, small

and large industries

• Established platform for collaboration

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Platform for Collaboration

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Workshop Findings

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• JBSA’ s combined energy use makes JBSA CPS Energy’s largest customer and one of DOD largest energy users.

• Community resources can contribute to help JBSA accelerate achievement of goals.

• Improved communication can help define requirements and identify solutions to JBSA issues.

• Concept of a focused Innovation Center/Information Clearinghouse suggested by attendees to support JBSA requirements.

Workshop Recommendation

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The San Antonio Community and JBSA should consider establishing a JBSA Sustainable Energy Innovation Center to meet the DOD challenges and take advantage of the funding and opportunity to capitalize on the new energy initiatives

Proposed Activities

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• Demonstrate solutions for achieving energy improvement goals for JBSA

• Accelerate assessment and implementation of new technologies that foster JBSA energy goals

• Provide clearinghouse for evaluating new technology and methods and their effectiveness and limitations

• Maintain a searchable database of ideas, technologies and solutions for JBSA to accelerate adoption

• Solutions will address all aspects of the efficient supply, storage, transmission, management and use of energy.

• Focused on military installations. Lessons learned from the military and the community will be shared, which will leverage activities and accelerate adoption of the best available solutions

Proposed Organization

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• The JBSA Center would be a project of the DTI (Defense Transformation Institute), a single member LLC of the Texas Research and Technology Foundation.

• The initial agreement would be by MOU between JBSA and DTI. Subsequent agreements could include Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Partnership Intermediary Agreement or other agreement forms.

• DTI would establish agreements with other local and national innovation collaborators by a variety of agreement forms.

• DTI would establish an advisory board to provide guidance, oversight and advice to DTI and JBSA.

San Antonio Research Collaborators

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• Texas Center for Applied Technology(TCAT)/Texas Engineering Experiment Station -- TAMUS

• UTSA Sustainable Energy Research Institute(SERI)• CPS Energy• San Antonio Water System• Southwest Research Institute• Startech• Others

JBSA / DTI Innovation Center

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MOU Executed December Dec 17, 2010

Purpose of MOU

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• Demonstrate solutions for achieving energy improvement goals for JBSA

• Hasten assessment and implementation of new technologies that foster the energy goals of JBSA

• Provide a clearinghouse for evaluating their performance effectiveness and limitations

• Maintain searchable database of ideas and technologies that can be utilized by JBSA for finding solutions to specific problems

Suggested Early Stage Work Plan

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• Hold series of working meetings with JBSA to learn requirements• Bring lessons-learned to JBSA

• Presentation of regional assets and ideas

• Vendors showcase

• Set up clearinghouse and communications systems

• Develop the searchable database

Requirement WorkshopTopics

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• Energy Management and Control System(EMCS)• Operational optimization

– Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC)– Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC)

• HVAC • Chillers etc.

• Smart grids• Renewables

– Waste to energy systems– Non PV solar

Activities to date

• Assisted JBSA and OSD in development of Strategic Energy Master Plan (SEMP)

• Developed assessment criteria

• Provided reviews and assessment of opportunities in PV solar project at Lackland

• Developed information sharing portal

• Initial work on website and clearing house prototypes

JBSA SEIC Contact

• DTI – Sid Saunders– [email protected]– 210-288-2431

• JBSA – Anthony Martinez – [email protected]– 210-808-0180