JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—ERDC Construction Engineering Laboratory’s (CERL) Harold Sanborn and Tarek Abdallah recently supported a successful operational demonstration for the Smart Power and Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD).
The SPIDERS JCTD demonstrates energy secure microgrids and transitions them as real property improvements at three Department of Defense locations, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), Hawaii; Fort Carson, Colo.; and Camp Smith, Hawaii. CERL is the SPIDERS JCTD technical manager.
The demonstration was conducted at JBPHH and concluded with several dignitaries in attendance to include CERL Director Dr. Ilker Adiguzel; Rear Adm. Fernandez Ponds, commander, Navy Region Hawaii; Capt. Bret Muilenburg, Navy Region Hawaii; and Dr. George Ka’iliwai III, director of Resources and Assessment J8, U.S. Pacific Command.
The dignitaries witnessed the SPIDERS microgrid isolating from the commercial utility grid and power critical operations using renewable and fuel based generation.
Learn more about this program at http://www.burnsmcd.com/Resource_/Article/6594/PdfFile/BM-2012v2-Offline.pdf and about CERL at http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ConstructionEngineeringResearchLaboratory.aspx.
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