1. Energy Security in Electric Power Grids:
Utility, Community, Military Micro-Grids
Mike Coop
mcoop@thinksmartgrid.com

2. Panelists
• Mike Coop, Founder/CTO,
ThinkSmartGrid
• Ralph Martinez, Director, UTEP RCES
• Salvador Cordero, Engineer, UTEP RCES

3. Military As Energy Consumer
• Two main types of DoD energy use—operational energy
and installation energy
• Operational energy is that required for training, moving,
and sustaining military forces and weapons platforms for
military operations, and includes energy used by tactical
power systems and generators and weapons platforms
• Installation energy (a.k.a. facility energy) is energy used
at installations that isn’t operational energy
• Roughly 75% of DoD energy use is operational; 25% is
installation energy

4. Energy isn’t Cheap
• DoD is likely the largest organizational user of petroleum
in the world, consuming ~117 billion barrels of oil in
FY2011
• DoD’s energy use in FY2010 accounted for ~80% of the
federal government’s overall use, and represented 0.8%
of total U.S. energy consumption
• Increasing our nation’s energy security is of vital
concern; today’s discussion will focus on DoD installation
energy, and the role a smarter grid will play

7. What is Energy Security?

8. Legislation on DoD Energy Use
• 2005 Energy Policy Act established renewable energy
mandates, now at no less than 7.5% for FY2013 and
beyond
• EISA 2007 requires a 30% reduction in federal building
energy use by FY2015
• National Defense Authorization Act mandates at least
25% renewable energy use in FY2025 and beyond
• The White House has mandated 1 GW of renewable
energy for each of the uniform services: Air Force (by
2016); Navy/Marines (by 2020); Army (by 2025)

9. How do we get there?

12. Money Leads to Opportunity
Army Corps of Engineers issued a
Multiple-Award Task Order
(MATOC) RFP for $7 billion in total
contract capacity to procure
reliable, locally generated,
renewable and alternative energy
through power purchase
agreements over a period of 30
years or less from renewable
energy plants that are constructed
and operated by contractors using
private sector financing

13. Money Leads to Opportunity
The combination of an
attractive target (DoD) plus White House says 1 of its unclassified networks was
attractive interconnected
cyberattacked, says effort was repelled
By Associated Press, Published: October 1
applications (Smart Grid) WASHINGTON — The White House is acknowledging an attempt
to infiltrate its computer system, but says it thwarted the effort and
necessitates new security
that no classified networks were threatened.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the White
House is equipped with mitigation measures that identified the
approaches (CIP versus attack, isolated it and prevented its spread.
He said there was no indication that any data was removed.
DIARMF, for instance) …
News of the most recent attack came as the Obama administration
is preparing an executive order with new rules to protect U.S.
computer systems. After Congress failed this summer to pass a
comprehensive cybersecurity bill, the White House said it would
use executive branch authorities to improve the nation’s computer
Where money flows, crime will security, especially for networks tied to essential U.S. industries,
such as electric grids, water plants, and banks.
follow

14. When Things Go Wrong…
In complex industrial, space,
and military systems, the
normal accident generally (not
always) means that the
interactions are not only
unexpected, but are
incomprehensible for some
critical period of time
Complex systems fail complexly