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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 3108 (Introduced in House) — To improve energy savings by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. · Sec. 8

Sec. 8. Secure energy innovation program

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The Secretary of Defense shall establish a program to develop and support projects designed to foster secure and reliable sources of energy for military installations, including incorporation of advanced energy metering, resilient energy, energy storage, and redundant power systems. The Secretary of Defense shall develop metrics for assessing the costs and benefits associated with secure energy projects proposed or implemented as part of the program established under subsection (a).
The metrics shall take into account financial and operational costs associated with sustained losses of power resulting from natural disasters or attacks that damage electrical grids serving military installations. As part of the program established under subsection (a), the Secretary of each military department shall conduct an assessment of each military installation under the jurisdiction of the Secretary— to identify all critical electrical loads for military missions performed at the installation; to determine the security of these electrical supplies and the sufficiency and readiness of backup power and continuity of operations plans; and to investigate alternative and renewable energy supplies and efficiency measures that would increase resilience of supplies to critical loads, which may include, but is not limited to, solar thermal, geothermal, waste heat, and renewable combined heat and power processes, combined heat and power, small modular nuclear reactor technologies, and fuel cell energy systems.
The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may use Energy Savings Performance Contracts, Power Purchase Agreements, and Enhanced Use Leasing agreements to carry out the program established under subsection
(a)to meet energy intensity or renewable energy goals if energy security and resilience of supply also improves as a result of entering into such a contract or agreement.
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