Naval Station (NS) Guantanamo Bay hosted a ribbon reducing ceremony for its newly constructed energy plant complicated on September 7.
These in attendance included the Honorable Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Power, Installations and Setting Meredith Berger, representatives from Siemens Authorities Applied sciences, Inc., Naval Amenities Engineering Methods Command (NAVFAC) management and employees from the bottom.
The $368.8 million venture, initially awarded by NAVFAC Southeast in July 2019, represents an Power Financial savings Efficiency Contract (ESPC) that’s strategically aligned with the Navy’s Power Safety pillars: resiliency, reliability, and effectivity.
“At present we reduce the ribbon on one thing that may guarantee that when somebody calls, we reply, a 20 Megawatt (MW) Liquefied Pure Fuel Energy Plant,” mentioned Berger in her keynote speech. “This infrastructure inaugurates a first-of-its-kind settlement utilizing vital financial savings of liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) over diesel. This cost-efficiency and power effectivity will create about $10 million in annual gas price financial savings.”
To satisfy the ability’s necessities, an intensive analysis and evaluation was performed to search out an efficient resolution that was each economical and safe. The choice, pure gasoline — which marked the primary ever LNG procurement; and up to now, the biggest ESPC in Navy historical past.
Capt. Miguel Dieguez, commanding officer of NAVFAC Southeast, emphasised, “The design of this particular energy plant is tailor-made to offer an environment friendly and dependable energy provide with a diminished carbon footprint to help each mission-critical operations and on a regular basis actions. Given its distant and remoted location at NS Guantanamo Bay, it was crucial that we choose the appropriate plan of motion with the appropriate business associate in Siemens Authorities Applied sciences the primary time round for this historic venture.”
The finished LNG energy technology facility makes use of liquefied pure gasoline to function a brand new dual-fuel mixed cycle energy plant serving all the set up. The power is projected to attain annual power financial savings of $24.6 million over a 22-year efficiency interval, scale back annual gas consumption by roughly 27.4 p.c, and curtail CO2 emissions by greater than 20,000 tons yearly.
Berger acknowledged, “The extra 12MW of recent photovoltaic electrical energy to the prevailing renewable energy, photovoltaic and wind, is sufficient to cowl roughly 75% of summer time peak demand, enabling durations the place all consumption could be glad by renewable sources.”
Along with the ability technology facility, 5 extra initiatives encompassed by this ESPC have already been finalized. These initiatives embrace a 1.73-megawatt photovoltaic system facility, a 12-megawatt grid-connected photovoltaic system with power storage, enhancements to inside and exterior lighting in 118 buildings, upgrades to water fixtures in 64 buildings, and enhancements to water and wastewater programs in three totally different areas.
“This plant is a good achievement for the naval station and the Navy,” mentioned NS Guantanamo Bay Commanding Officer Capt. Samuel White. “NS Guantanamo Bay is self-sufficient in relation to energy manufacturing and this LNG plant is cost-effective for the Navy to energy this set up for years to come back.”
Total, the ESPC will generate $834 million in whole power and water financial savings for each the Division of the Navy and the Division of Protection. This collective effort will improve the set up’s power resilience and reliability, bettering capabilities to help inter-agency and joint operations, offering mission assurance, and sustaining a continuing state of readiness.
“There are two key gadgets that allow initiatives like this to achieve success: one, a typical mission in help of nationwide safety; and two, our business partnerships,” mentioned NAVFAC Atlantic Commander Rear Adm. Lore Aguayo. “Partnerships like we’ve listed here are a mannequin for what NAVFAC strives to attain around the globe as we construct the infrastructure the Navy wants for strategic competitors to outpace China and restrain Russia.”
