This solicitation seeks to demonstrate innovative technology solutions that have high potential to improve the energy resilience of military installations, allowing them to continue critical mission support in the face of disruptive threats. 

Of particular interest are solutions that: 

• Are verifiably at Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) between 5 and 7; or Adoption Readiness Levels (ARL) between 5 and 7 (energy.gov/ARL).
• Have high potential to improve the resilience of military installations by reducing the need to import energy when commercial utility supplies are unavailable or disrupted.
• Solve challenges unique to enduring installations in regions of particular interest to DoW such as cold regions (e.g., arctic), remote locations (e.g., islands), and arid/water-scarce regions (e.g., southwest US).
• Recognize and take advantage of the interconnectedness and synergy of energy (thermal and electric), water (and wastewater), and control systems.
• Have the potential to detect and resolve power quality issues that impact mission critical equipment
• Offer innovative business models for financing resilience improvements at installations.
• Recognize and address the cybersecurity aspects of the proposed resilience solution.
• Can clearly articulate a DoW end-user interested in adopting the technology upon completion of a successful demonstration. 

Proposals that will not be considered responsive are solutions that: 

• Are already broadly deployed across the DoW enterprise.
• Require access to large volumes of high-quality DoW data.
• Solve a need for a particular installation but are not broadly applicable across the DoW enterprise. 

Proposals involving long duration energy storage (LDES) technology should submit under the specific LDES topic area. 

Successful technologies and solutions demonstrating increased energy resilience and reduced dependence on imported energy enable DoW mission continuity, protection against threats, and reduced dependency on vulnerable public utilities. 

As defined in 10 U.S.C. § 101(e), energy resilience is the ability to avoid, prepare for, minimize, adapt to, and recover from anticipated and unanticipated energy disruptions. Improvements to installation energy resilience can be made through a variety of approaches (broadly considered “technology”), including planning tools and processes, access to timely and accurate information, new innovations in hardware and software, targeted hardening of existing electrical infrastructure, training and other means. Installations have a wide variety of energy systems that deliver electrical and thermal energy to power critical missions, fuel industrial processes, and power facilities and vehicles. Most installations rely on the commercial electrical grid for primary power and building-level diesel generators and uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) for back-up power to serve critical loads. More frequent and stronger natural disasters and threats to the commercial electric grid require new solutions to improve energy resilience and meet the energy requirements for mission assurance. Resilient energy systems enable the DoW’s facilities, weapon systems, and equipment to perform mission-critical functions when the commercial grid and other off-base energy resources are unavailable. 

Proposers should be aware of the relevant UFCs, 4-010-06 Cybersecurity of Facility-Related Control Systems (ufc-4-010-06), and 3-550-04, Resilient Installation Microgrid Design (ufc-3-550-04). The proposed demonstrations are not required to comply with these UFCs. 

Keith Welch 

Program Manager for Installation Energy & Water (EW) 

Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) 

E-mail: keith.a.welch3.civ@mail.mil