Joint Base San Antonio
Sustainable Energy Innovation Center
Sid Saunders
Defense Transformation Institute
February 15, 2011
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DTI Goals
• Promote economic development on and
around military bases in San Antonio
• Enhance the military value of local missions
• Reduce the military installation management
cost
• Accelerate the construction of new base
facilities for military missions
• Leverage military assets and capabilities
through enhanced community partnerships
DTI Projects and Activities
• Established agreements with installations and
military organizations to foster collaborations.
• Supporting the expansion of installations and
public private partnerships to enhance growth
opportunities and reduce installation costs.
• Sponsored a number of workshops in community
partnerships to explore new collaboration models.
• In collaboration with of JBSA sponsored
Sustainable Energy Workshop on June 9, 2010
Defense Transformation Institute
presents
Joint Base San Antonio
Sustainable Energy Workshop
Siemens
Sustainable Energy Workshop
• Attended by 185
• Was a good review of JBSA and the each
installation energy goals and challenges
• Provided introduction of community support
organizations and activities
– CPS , UTSA, Texas A&M, SWRI, Startech, small
and large industries
• Established platform for collaboration
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Platform for Collaboration
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Workshop Findings
• JBSA’ s combined energy use makes JBSA CPS
Energy’s largest customer and one of DOD
largest energy users.
• Community resources can contribute to help
JBSA accelerate achievement of goals.
• Improved communication can help define
requirements and identify solutions to JBSA
issues.
• Concept of a focused Innovation
Center/Information Clearinghouse suggested by
attendees to support JBSA requirements.
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Workshop Recommendation
The San Antonio Community and JBSA
should consider establishing a JBSA
Sustainable Energy Innovation Center to meet
the DOD challenges and take advantage of the
funding and opportunity to capitalize on the
new energy initiatives
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Proposed Activities
• Demonstrate solutions for achieving energy improvement goals for JBSA
• Accelerate assessment and implementation of new technologies that foster
JBSA energy goals
• Provide clearinghouse for evaluating new technology and methods and
their effectiveness and limitations
• Maintain a searchable database of ideas, technologies and solutions for
JBSA to accelerate adoption
• Solutions will address all aspects of the efficient supply, storage,
transmission, management and use of energy.
• Focused on military installations. Lessons learned from the military and the
community will be shared, which will leverage activities and accelerate
adoption of the best available solutions
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Proposed Organization
• The JBSA Center would be a project of the DTI (Defense
Transformation Institute), a single member LLC of the
Texas Research and Technology Foundation.
• The initial agreement would be by MOU between JBSA and
DTI. Subsequent agreements could include Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement, Partnership
Intermediary Agreement or other agreement forms.
• DTI would establish agreements with other local and
national innovation collaborators by a variety of agreement
forms.
• DTI would establish an advisory board to provide guidance,
oversight and advice to DTI and JBSA.
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San Antonio Research Collaborators
• Texas Center for Applied Technology(TCAT)/Texas Engineering
Experiment Station -- TAMUS
• UTSA Sustainable Energy Research Institute(SERI)
• CPS Energy
• San Antonio Water System
• Southwest Research Institute
• Startech
• Others
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JBSA / DTI Innovation Center
JBSA
DTI
Partners
(partial listing)
CoSA
TEES
UTSA
CPS
LAFB, FSH, RAFB,
Camp Bullis
INNOVATION CENTER
State of TEXAS
SwRI
Businesses
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MOU Executed
December Dec 17, 2010
Purpose of MOU
• Demonstrate solutions for achieving energy
improvement goals for JBSA
• Hasten assessment and implementation of new
technologies that foster the energy goals of JBSA
• Provide a clearinghouse for evaluating their
performance effectiveness and limitations
• Maintain searchable database of ideas and
technologies that can be utilized by JBSA for
finding solutions to specific problems
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Suggested Early Stage Work Plan
• Hold series of working meetings with JBSA to
learn requirements
• Bring lessons-learned to JBSA
• Presentation of regional assets and ideas
• Vendors showcase
• Set up clearinghouse and communications
systems
• Develop the searchable database
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Requirement Workshop
Topics
• Energy Management and Control System(EMCS)
• Operational optimization
– Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC)
– Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC)
• HVAC
• Chillers etc.
• Smart grids
• Renewables
– Waste to energy systems
– Non PV solar
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Activities to date
• Assisted JBSA and OSD in development of
Strategic Energy Master Plan (SEMP)
• Developed assessment criteria
• Provided reviews and assessment of
opportunities in PV solar project at Lackland
• Developed information sharing portal
• Initial work on website and clearing house
prototypes
JBSA SEIC
Contact
• DTI
– Sid Saunders
– ssaunders@defensetransform.org
– 210-288-2431
• JBSA
– Anthony Martinez
– anthony.martinez@jbtx.mil
– 210-808-0180