Keeping Our Sights on Target: A Strategic Vision for Energy Security
By John Kliem P.E., CEM, Executive Director of the Resilient Energy Program Office The Navy was challenged in 2017 to navigate changing seas of reduced resources. We faced evolving threats from...
View ArticleU.S. Navy’s Partnerships, Learning, Strength and Teamwork Vital to Arctic’s...
Rear Adm. Stuart Munsch, Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Operations, Plans and Strategy (N3/N5B), delivered the following remarks during the 7th Symposium on the Impacts of an...
View ArticleEnergy Projects Keep Us Powering On: A Look Back at 2016
By The Honorable Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations & Environment) As my time as ASN EI&E draws to a close, it is with great pride that I look back and...
View ArticleOur Sailors’ Lives and Our Navy’s Capability Demand Enduring Energy Action
By Vice Adm. Phil Cullom Deputy chief of naval operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics Energy Action Month 2016 closes out today. As it ends, I ask our warriors around the Navy to treat today as...
View ArticleCharting the Department of the Navy’s Energy Future
By Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment I look forward to Energy Action Month every year as a key time to reinforce the criticality of reliable...
View ArticleInnovation Lessons from Great White Fleet and Great Green Fleet ‘Energize’...
By Rear Adm. John Fuller Commander, Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific Commander, Task Force Energy and Environment More than 100 years ago this month – July 16, 1908 – President...
View ArticleGreat Green Fleet Continues Great White Fleet’s Legacy of Global Presence
By Naval History and Heritage Command’s Communication and Outreach Division The U.S. Navy maintains naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas and,...
View ArticleMicrogrids: Macro Benefits for our Navy Bases
By Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment In May 2014, Secretary Ray Mabus stood up the Renewable Energy Program Office (REPO) to help the Department...
View ArticleAt Pearl Harbor and Barking Sands, Every Day is Earth Day
‘Dreams Come True … in Green, Blue Hawaii’ By Rear Adm. John Fuller Commander, Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific Elvis Presley brought Hawaii to the silver screen 55 years ago...
View ArticleCost-Conscious Renewable Energy for Energy Security
By Hon. Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment The Department of the Navy (DON) has had quite a year for progress towards the Secretary of the Navy’s...
View ArticleDepartment of the Navy Transforms Energy Use
In 2009, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced five energy goals designed to transform the Department of the Navy’s energy use to make us better warfighters, deploying next-generation capabilities...
View ArticleFrom Seas to Skies – Power Matters
By Hon. Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment) The Department of Defense (DoD) uses a lot of energy – approximately $18.2 billion worth per year –...
View ArticleExecuting Renewable Energy Projects as Environmental Stewards
By Hon. Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment) Since 2009, the Department of the Navy (DON) has been decisively procuring renewable energy to increase...
View ArticleBy the Numbers: Navy Signs Agreement for Largest Purchase of Renewable Energy...
The Department of the Navy, Western Area Power Administration (Western), and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power hosted a ceremony, Aug. 20, commemorating an agreement to construct a 210 megawatt (MW) direct...
View ArticleOn-Base Solar Farms: A Sunny Outlook for the Navy’s Energy Strategy
By Hon. Dennis V. McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment) Renewable energy for the Department of the Navy (DON) is not a distant goal or a vision of the...
View ArticleWhat is a Gigawatt?
By Hon. Dennis McGinnAssistant Secretary of the Navy – Energy, Installations & Environment If you’ve ever seen Back to the Future, you’ll know that in order to get the DeLorean running again, Doc...
View ArticleRenewable Energy: Powering the Future
By Hon. Dennis McGinn Assistant Secretary of the Navy – Energy, Installations & Environment Energy is at the core of every one of our missions. You may not think about where your energy comes from,...
View ArticleU.S. Navy Celebrates Earth Day 2015
U.S. Navy commands are participating in events and activities that celebrate Earth Day, which is Wednesday, throughout the month of April. The Navy’s 2015 theme for Earth Day, “A Sustainable Future...
View Article#NavyInnovates in the Arctic
By Dr. Martin Jeffries Office of Naval Research Arctic Science Advisor and Program Officer for Arctic and Global Prediction Something is afoot in the Arctic, and computer models predict that we can...
View ArticleEnergy Action Month: October Ends, Awareness—and Action—Continue
By Vice Adm. Phil Cullom Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics (N4) Forward, from the sea. That’s the mandate we have as the U.S. Navy. Bringing the fight to our enemies,...
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