The United States Department of Defense terrestrial photovoltaic program: a 1994 status report

Author

Smith, Garyl D. ; Combs, Chuck ; Ducey, Roch ; Strother, Larry W. ; Chapman, Richard N. ; Hoelscher, James F.

Author_Institution

Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Dec 1994

Firstpage

2287

Abstract

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has an aggressive, wide-ranging strategy to broaden photovoltaics (PV) use for military purposes. The DoD potential market is immense. Some estimates have placed this market as high as 3800 megawatts (MW) over the long term. The key organization to develop and implement a PV utilization strategy is the DoD PV Review Committee. Funding for PV in the DoD is through the Energy Conservation Investment Program (ECIP), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and through operations and maintenance budgets. Procurement actions are (or about to be) initiated for ten separate projects representing nearly 1.4 MW of PV during 1994 or early 1995. These range in size from 60 to 450 kilowatts (kW) and are primarily intermediate-sized PV-diesel hybrid systems with one large grid interactive project

Keywords

government policies; photovoltaic power systems; project engineering; project management; research and development management; 1.4 MW; 3800 MW; 60 to 450 kW; Department of Defense; PV utilization strategy; R&D efforts; USA; funding; military purposes; procurement; projects; terrestrial photovoltaic program; Energy management; Interactive systems; Laboratories; Photovoltaic systems; Procurement; Project management; Research and development; Solar power generation; US Department of Defense; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 1994., Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1994, 1994 IEEE First World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1460-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.1994.521681

Filename

521681