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03-16-07, 08:54 AM
Some Navy, Marine bases get cheap electricity
By Gidget Fuentes - Times staff writer
Posted : Friday Mar 16, 2007 5:39:48 EDT
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – Navy and Marine Corps bases will save $13.2 million in electricity costs over the next 20 years after the Western Area Power Administration agreed to provide bases with some cheaper electricity, Navy officials announced Thursday.
Military bases in the Southwest region will begin receiving the low-cost wholesale electricity starting in October 2008, said Lee Saunders, a spokesman for Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest in San Diego, which provides public works support to the region’s bases.
“The savings will be $660,000 per year for 20 years, for a total of $13.2 million,” Saunders said.
WAPA, an agency that functions as the U.S. Department of Energy’s power marketer, awarded the Southwest command two megawatts of low-cost wholesale electricity, the result of five years’ of negotiation between WAPA and the military, Navy officials said. The agency provides occasional arrangements to qualifying large-energy consumers, who are able to get excess power created by the David and Parker dams, hydro-electric dams on the Colorado River operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Each megawatt, which is one million kilowatts, is enough to power 2,000 homes, according to the agency.
“A $13 million cost avoidance is very significant,” David B. Deiranieh, Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest’s utilities and energy management product line coordinator, said in a statement. Deiranieh praised the team that negotiated for the savings.
“Both the Navy and the Marine Corps will benefit from this low cost power allocation,” he added.
Military officials agreed to divvy the low-cost electricity, with Navy bases getting 70 percent of the benefit, 25 percent going to Marine Corps Installations-West and five percent to other commands, including Defense Department commissaries.
Military bases in the Southwest had seen energy costs skyrocket in the summer of 2000 when a power crisis and pricing scandal rocked customers in the West. High and unexpected electrical and natural gas bills cut deeply into pocketbooks and base operations and maintenance budgets
Ellie
By Gidget Fuentes - Times staff writer
Posted : Friday Mar 16, 2007 5:39:48 EDT
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – Navy and Marine Corps bases will save $13.2 million in electricity costs over the next 20 years after the Western Area Power Administration agreed to provide bases with some cheaper electricity, Navy officials announced Thursday.
Military bases in the Southwest region will begin receiving the low-cost wholesale electricity starting in October 2008, said Lee Saunders, a spokesman for Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest in San Diego, which provides public works support to the region’s bases.
“The savings will be $660,000 per year for 20 years, for a total of $13.2 million,” Saunders said.
WAPA, an agency that functions as the U.S. Department of Energy’s power marketer, awarded the Southwest command two megawatts of low-cost wholesale electricity, the result of five years’ of negotiation between WAPA and the military, Navy officials said. The agency provides occasional arrangements to qualifying large-energy consumers, who are able to get excess power created by the David and Parker dams, hydro-electric dams on the Colorado River operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Each megawatt, which is one million kilowatts, is enough to power 2,000 homes, according to the agency.
“A $13 million cost avoidance is very significant,” David B. Deiranieh, Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest’s utilities and energy management product line coordinator, said in a statement. Deiranieh praised the team that negotiated for the savings.
“Both the Navy and the Marine Corps will benefit from this low cost power allocation,” he added.
Military officials agreed to divvy the low-cost electricity, with Navy bases getting 70 percent of the benefit, 25 percent going to Marine Corps Installations-West and five percent to other commands, including Defense Department commissaries.
Military bases in the Southwest had seen energy costs skyrocket in the summer of 2000 when a power crisis and pricing scandal rocked customers in the West. High and unexpected electrical and natural gas bills cut deeply into pocketbooks and base operations and maintenance budgets
Ellie