At their enterprise assembly Jan. 25, the CEC permitted funding for the Navy Electrical Automobile Pilot Program ($414,000) and the Electrification Blueprint Research ($1,500,000) for 3 Navy and three Marine Corps installations. That is the primary execution of tasks that the Navy started engaged on with the CEC following a Memorandum of Understanding signing in December 2021.
“We’re excited to be shifting ahead with these important power tasks at Navy bases all through the Southwest,” stated Rear Adm. Brad Rosen, commander of Navy Area Southwest. “Our partnership with the California Power Fee is exclusive to the Navy, and this ahead momentum can solely improve the possibilities of comparable partnerships turning into obtainable sooner or later.”
The Navy packages receiving this important funding are:
• Protection Innovation Unit Electrical Automobile Pilot: The CEC funds will probably be used to acquire and set up 10 Degree 2 and 4 Degree 3 chargers at Naval Base San Diego for charging private and authorities autos. The Navy will measure uptime, utilization, responsibility cycle, automobile sorts, ratio of presidency to non-public autos, and max charging energy
• Electrification Blueprints: Electrification Blueprints will probably be created for 3 installations chosen by Navy Area Southwest and three installations chosen by Marine Corps Installations West: Naval Base San Diego, Naval Base Ventura County, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corp Air Floor Fight Middle 29 Palms.
- This undertaking will develop particular transportation electrification blueprints for every chosen base, to assist the transportation electrification necessities of their civilian and army workforce.
- The blueprint will present quantitative evaluation price profit evaluation of leveraging modern applied sciences within the electrification of transportation infrastructure, significantly these associated to vehicle-to-grid integration (VGI) and EVSE to grid.
In December 2021, the Navy and the CEC agreed to conduct month-to-month convention calls, semi-annual in-person conferences to debate power and water associated points, make the most of working teams to evaluate open points, and foster collaboration on mutual curiosity gadgets in assist of every group’s respective targets.
“Power is important to the nation and to the Navy,” Rosen stated, “and we’re pursuing a deliberate power technique to cut back our vulnerability in partnership with the CEC.”
For extra data on the Navy’s power conservation efforts, please name Brian O’Rourke, Navy Area Southwest, at (619) 985-3725, or e mail brian.ok.orourke.civ@us.navy.mil.
