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The National Defense Authorization Act and all branches mandate resilience yet insufficient resources exist to support infrastructure and training, and further, limited guidance on how to conceptualize, execute, and fund resilience. This project will provide energy resilience training focused on microgrids to:
(a) Enhance understanding, design, and sustainment of resilient energy access for mission assurance within military installations,
(b) Facilitate cross-collaboration between utilities, installation leadership, and installation facilities to develop resilient energy solutions such as microgrids, and
(c) Disseminate a standardized microgrid resilience knowledge set and expertise across Department of Defense (DoD) entities with continuation through DoD training programs for facilities personnel.
This project will refine and scale existing training content from Arizona State University (ASU), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Slipstream into a series of recurring microgrid training programs targeted toward military installation facilities and leadership, DoD laboratories and warfare centers, energy utility partners, and DoD contractors/partners. Innovative aspects of this training methodology include:
Mission assurance and success is dependent on the defense workforce being equipped with the tools and technical acuity to fight modern wars. As emphasized by the National Defense Strategy 2018, priority must be placed on developing a modernized, highly-capable force through recruitment, development, and retainment of talent both in uniformed and civilian job roles. This work directly meets this need by providing targeted training to participants to improve knowledge in career relevant skills and prepare them to design and operate DoD installations with a systems-level understanding of resilient energy technology such as microgrids. Results will be directly measured through quantitative and qualitative metrics on knowledge gain, program impact, career relevance, program quality, and adoption. These success indicators and subsequent training scaling during and following funded program completion will improve the capacity of the DoD to meet critical power for 7- 14 days, reduce costs of critical load protection, and reduce overall operation costs for utilities.