Sec. 2828. Improved electrical metering of Department of Defense infrastructure supporting critical missions
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The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments shall improve the metering of electrical energy usage of covered defense structures to accurately determine energy consumption by such a structure to increase energy efficiency and improve energy resilience, using any combination of the options specified in subsection
(b)or such other methods as the Secretary concerned considers practicable. Electrical energy usage options to be considered for a covered defense structure include the following: Installation of a smart meter at the electric power supply cable entry point of the covered defense structure, with remote data storage and retrieval capability using cellular communication, to provide historical energy usage data on an hourly basis to accurately determine the optimum cost effective energy efficiency and energy resilience measures for the covered defense structure. Use of an energy usage audit firm to individually meter the covered defense structure using clamp-on meters and data storage to provide year–long electric energy load profile data, particularly in the case of a covered defense structure located in climates with highly variable use based on weather or temperature changes to accurately identify electric energy usage demand for both peak and off peak periods for a covered defense structure. Manual collection and calculation of the connected load via nameplate data survey of all the connected electrical devices for the covered defense structure and comparing it to the designed maximum rating of the incoming electric supply to determine the maximum electrical load for the covered defense structure. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments shall consider the use of arrangements (known as public-private partnerships) with appropriate entities outside the Government to reduce the cost of carrying out this section. In this section: The term covered defense structure means any infrastructure under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense inside the United States that the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned determines— is used to support a critical mission of the Department; and is located at a military installation with base-wide resilient power. The term energy resilience has the meaning given that term in section 101(e)(6) of title 10, United States Code. As part of the Department of Defense energy management report to be submitted under section 2925 of title 10, United States Code, during fiscal year 2022, the Secretary of Defense shall include information on the progress being made to comply with the requirements of this section.