The Comprehensive Energy and Water Master Plan (CEWMP) is an essential guide for managing infrastructure, providing strategies for energy and water efficiency, waste reduction, creating alternative and renewable energy solutions while providing energy and water security. It incorporates holistic and sustainable planning principles while promoting environmental stewardship across our Army installations. Rexroad APG was selected to develop the methodology that will be applied Army-wide for these ground-breaking plans. The final methodology was approved following a presentation in Washington D.C. and this document now sets the standard as the only IMCOM sanctioned approach for completion of these studies. The Rexroad APG Team is applying the methodology at Redstone Arsenal as the first of five installations to be studied under this task order.
The CEWMP is the result of a need for the Army to meet the requirements of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005, Executive Order (EO) 13423, and the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. These requirements reflect the underlying principles of environmental stewardship and sustainability, to which the installation, as a component of a sustainable Army, must aspire to meet. This CEWMP is the roadmap that provides recommendations to optimize the installation’s energy and water systems and solutions to implement renewable and alternative energy and water technologies.
Education is central to the CEWMP process. At a visioning workshop Rexroad APG works with Garrison personnel to explain and establish the contributing factors that are necessary for maintaining an environment that is sustainable. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis exercises define the current status of the installation with regard to energy and water security and consumption. Trend analysis exercises define where the installation is headed and scenario testing helps clarify the direction for an ideal future. Scenario statements that are approved by all workshop participants become the foundation for the vision statement and are again reflected in identified goals and objectives.
The primary goal of this document is to develop a sustainability strategy for achieving compliance with the mandated energy and water reduction goals. A secondary goal of the CEWMP is to promote energy security through the implementation of cost-effective demand reduction strategies and renewable energy projects. A side benefit to meeting these goals is long term cost reduction and cost avoidance. Most importantly, the CEWMP transitions the installation from a compliance based environmental program to a mission-oriented approach that is based on the principles of sustainability. The following Army installations are included with this study: Fort Hood, Fort Jackson, Fort Leonard Wood, Redstone Arsenal and Rock Island Arsenal. A joint plan is also in the works for Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base and Yalima Training Center