NAVFAC MIDLANT’s Marvin Newton is interviewed regarding the Norfolk VA Naval installations participation in the PJM-Dominion Demand Response Event, July 7, 2o10.
In a Press Release issued by NAVFAC it was stated,
Hampton Roads-area Navy base electric plants produced 35 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 35,000 households, July 7 as part of an emergency demand response (EDR) program with the PJM Interconnection electrical grid that serves several states on the East Coast.
The program is part of a power demand curtailment contract started in 2009 by NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic to reduce bases power demands on the entire grid when such demands are at their highest.
The contract is through the Defense Energy Support Center with curtailment service provider NuEnergen, of White Plains, N.Y. The contract calls for a total of eight electrical plants at Norfolk Naval Station, Naval Support Activity Norfolk, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Naval Air Station Oceana, Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story and Dam Neck Annex to provide 35 megawatts of their own electricity for use on bases. This temporarily reduces the demand on the grid during peak usage emergencies, such as the heat wave that saw temperatures of 100 degrees on the East Coast during the week of July 5.
