Army initiates first-of-its-size battery project in latest sign of a greening military
By Jeremy Beaman, Energy and Environment Reporter November 07, 2022 03:00 AM
The U.S. Army just broke ground on a largest-of-its-kind clean energy storage project, a sign of a military that's increasingly focused on reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change .
Leadership at Fort Carson in Colorado hosted a ceremony Thursday to initiate the Flow Battery Pilot program, which will test out a one-megawatt-sized long-duration battery to store on-base electricity generated from renewable sources. It's another incremental step toward the fundamental transformation President Joe Biden, who set a national target for the U.S. to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, wants to speed up by reorienting the Department of Defense's operational strategy to prioritize climate change.
Climate change has been a priority for Biden, who made it a centerpiece of his legislative agenda. He also issued a sprawling executive order during his first week in office directing government agencies to look inward and assess how climate change affects their operations and to draw up plans to reduce their department-wide emissions.
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