BEAUFORT, S.C. - Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is gearing up for new energy saving policies in 2015. The new Unit Energy Program will assign a Unit Energy Manager to every unit on base starting this June.
The UEMs will be assigned a number of buildings to inspect on a regular basis, said Neil Tisdale, utilities director and energies manager for Public Works aboard Fightertown.
“They will conduct walk-throughs of their building to see if there are any improvements that can be made in regards to energy,” said Tisdale. “[Serving as a UEM] would be a collateral duty and there will be training required.”
Energy conservation and energy management are issues of extreme importance to the Marine Corps. Wasting energy resources like electricity, fuel and water can affect mission readiness.
“[The UEMs] need to have their eyes out all through the base for anything that would affect the building envelope adversely with respect to energy usage, in order to make people aware in the building and to increase awareness so we can reduce our energy consumption,” Tisdale said.
However, the UEMs are not the only ones responsible for saving energy. Every Marine, sailor and civilian aboard Fightertown needs to be aware of the energy being used at their work station or living space.
Energy conservation can be as simple as switching off lights when you leave a room. If a larger problem exists, a work order needs to be turned into Public Works to be handled properly.
“If you see something that’s not quite right, like a dripping sink or a water leak, you should know that you have to report it because it’s using energy,” said Tisdale.
The Unit Energy Program is slated to become mandatory aboard all USMC installations in the future and it is scheduled to take effect aboard MCAS Beaufort this June.
“It’s about establishing an energy conservation mindset or an energy conservation ethos, where everybody is concerned about conserving energy and it just becomes a way of life,” said Tsdale.
For more information about the Unit Energy Program, call Neil Tisdale at 228-6317.
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