Photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel Jean-Paul | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 07.27.2015
Ways to be more energy efficient include shutting off office lights and allowing natural light into the workplace, and implementing a daily checklist, which ensures nonessential electronics are shut off at the end of each day. Energy conservation starts with individual effort and every little step towards conserving energy goes a long way toward making the Marine Corps a more efficient......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel Jean-Paul | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 07.23.2015
Ways to be more energy efficient include shutting off office lights and allowing natural light into the workplace, and implementing a daily checklist, which ensures nonessential electronics are shut off at the end of each day. Energy conservation starts with individual effort and every little step toward conserving energy goes a long way toward making the Marine Corps a more efficient fighting......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel Jean-Paul | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 07.21.2015
Marine administrative message 114/15 established the Unit Energy Management Program, which requires every command in the Marine Corps to appoint a unit energy manager to each unit aboard its installations. It is up to the energy manager to initiate, promote and supervise a more ecofriendly work environment. “It becomes more of a mindset, rather than another (responsibility) in your......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon Suhr | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.25.2013
Japanese contractors recently constructed one of the Department of Defense’s first wind turbines in Japan adjacent to Building 1 on Camp Foster. The turbine is expected to be fully operational in mid-April and will generate clean power and help reduce MCB Camp Butler’s carbon footprint and utility costs, according to Tomoko Matsuzaki, an energy engineer with facilities engineers....
Photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon Suhr | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.19.2013
A wind turbine is installed March 19 adjacent to Building 1 on Camp Foster. The turbine is capable of generating 10 kilowatt-hours each hour at its peak, which, as an example, would power the fluorescent lights on one floor of Building 1, according to Capt. Steven M. Bancroft, energy and utilities officer in charge with facilities engineers, G-F, Facilities, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D.......
