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Introduction
This report was funded by the Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management
Program (FEMP). The Federal Energy Management Program's mission is to "facilitate
the Federal Government's implementation of sound, cost-effective energy management
and investment practices to enhance the nation's energy security and environmental
stewardship." Although this document discusses legal issues it is not the intent to
provide legal interpretations or advice. The discussions herein cannot be relied on as
legal opinions.
The concentration of military facilities on the plains east of the Rock Mountains,
including Northcom facilities, are critical to national security and defense. Continuity of
operations of all or portions of these facilities requires a secure and reliable supply of
power. Recent reports by the Department of Defense (DOD), including the Defense
Science Board (DSB) February 2009 Energy Panel report, "More Fight, Less Fuel," and
the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), "High-Impact, Low-
Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System" (June 2010) highlight
the potential risk to the civilian power infrastructure and consequently to military
missions. In addition, these reports indicate potential future threats, and power outages,
may last far longer than current emergency operating plans and facilities anticipate.
In response to this risk, Northcom staff began exploring options. It appeared to
Northcom staff that there are sufficient renewable and other resources in this region to
meet mission critical military power needs and that the potential for smart-grid
technologies may enable the development of a mission critical grid-within-a-grid. In
concept, smart-grid technologies could be used during an emergency to automatically
reconfigure the commercial power grid to ensure reliable supplies of power to mission
critical DOD facilities.
Northcom's secure smart-grid concept depends on indigenous renewable and other
resources to meet the emergency and other power needs of DOD facilities, transmission
and distribution capabilities to wheel power from generating sources among DOD sites,
and so-called "smart" technologies that enable the automatic reconfiguration of the grid
to serve as a secure grid and to manage loads and resources to maintain system stability.
Northcom expects this potential exists within Colorado and Wyoming because:
" Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) previously identified significant
wind and other renewable resources at two installations, Fort Carson and FE
Warren AFB, some of which have been developed;
" Preliminary assessments by FEMP of potential for a large-scale solar
development that could serve multiple installations by wheeling the power from a
central site;3
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Warwick, William M. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) FEMP Technical Assistance U.S. Army – Project 214 Analysis of Regulations Associated with Implementation of a Rocky Mountain Secure Smart-Grid, report, September 30, 2010; Richland, Washington. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc832460/m1/11/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.