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Woodward, James C.

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DOE OSTI2019

Evaluating Water Assets Using Water Efficiency Framework for Infrastructure Intensive Agency

Water infrastructure-intensive organizations should incorporate sustainability principles when making decisions on infrastructure investments to ensure the long-term resilience of mission-critical equipment and components. A water efficiency evaluation framework to inform infrastructure investments is discussed and applied to three federal campuses. The methodology considered emphasizes the iterative process between data analysis and decision-making; evaluates cost-sharing solution alternatives when making final recommendations; considers both internal and external stakeholder perceptions of project outcomes and future planning; and makes explicit government and community preferences when evaluating projects. Case study findings underscore condition evaluations for infrastructure that are critical to setting a baseline for system performance and determining desired potential upgrades and sustainment strategies. Such a holistic approach has demonstrated effectiveness for understanding, classifying, and recommending innovative water asset solutions that are necessary for the public sector to consider in today’s complex, modern planning environment.

Asset Management, Alternative Water, evaluation, P↗

DOE OSTI2017

Transactive Systems Simulation and Valuation Platform Trial Analysis

Transactive energy systems use principles of value to coordinate responsive supply and demand in energy systems. Work continues within the Transactive Systems Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to understand the value of, understand the theory behind, and simulate the behaviors of transactive energy systems. This report summarizes recent advances made by this program. The main capability advances include a more comprehensive valuation model, including recommended documentation that should make valuation studies of all sorts more transparent, definition of economic metrics with which transactive mechanisms can be evaluated, and multiple improvements to the time-simulation environment that is being used to evaluate transactive scenarios.

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATI↗

DOE OSTI2017

Lessons Learned from Comprehensive Energy and Water Evaluations at U.S. Army Campus Installations

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has engaged in a multi-year collaboration with the U.S. Army to support comprehensive energy and water evaluations at large Army campus installations. Initiated to help the Army achieve compliance with facility evaluation requirements dictated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, this effort has resulted in the evaluation of 530 buildings at 14 installations across the U.S., and the identification of annual savings potential of over 212 billion Btu of energy and 29 million gallons of water. This paper highlights the nature of the evaluation process applied at these Army installations and discusses a number of key findings that can be considered for ongoing and future evaluations at Army and other federal agency facilities, particularly those buildings within campus settings.

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