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Military’s Mission: Become More Energy Efficient

Spending more than $15.2 billion on energy last year, the U.S. Department of Defense is without a doubt, one of the largest users and biggest-spending consumers of fuel and electricity in this country. In fact, it may well be one of the largest users in the world.

For that reason, the past two presidential administrations, both Obama’s and Bush’s, have tasked the military with finding ways to reduce those costs and become more energy efficient in their buildings, as well as overall operations. Many of those efforts can be seen in Hampton Roads including wind turbines that power a special-opts training post in Virginia Beach, use of electric vehicles at a Coast Guard yard in Portsmouth, temperature-controlled Air Force barracks in Hampton and even rain gardens designed to limit runoff into the Chesapeake Bay from the Norfolk Naval Air Station.

While not directly involved in these immediate efforts, helping the military find ways to improve efficiency and manage natural resources is nothing new for SENCON’s parent company, ASIS, which also provides energy management solutions and consulting services to a wide array of commercial businesses and properties, as well as state and local government agencies.

To learn more about the military’s efforts at becoming more energy efficient, check out this story that appeared in The Virginian-Pilot.

To find out more about both SENCON’s and ASIS’s array of energy efficiency and other services, click here for SENCON and click here for ASIS.