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“As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil – not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.”

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jul. 31, 2008

"To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy."

                                                                       BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009

OVERVIEW

Executive Order (#13514)

President Obama issued an executive order (#13514) in 2009 that requires federal agencies by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions government wide by 28 percent from a 2008 baseline. The 2005 Energy Policy Act also requires agencies to make sure that 7.5 percent of their facility energy use comes from renewable energy by fiscal 2013.

Guidance for Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Inventories

Better Building Challenge

In February 2011, President Obama, building upon the investments of the Recovery Act, announced the Better Buildings Initiative to make commercial and industrial buildings 20% more energy efficient by 2020 and accelerate private sector investment in energy efficiency.

Better Buildings Strategies include:

Better Buildings Challenge

“Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.”

                                             HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech at Cleantech Venture Forum VIII, Oct. 25, 2005

Military

Increased access to clean and reliable energy has become a leading priority for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the military arena in general, both as a means of reducing dependence on foreign oil as well as for purposes of increasing the efficiency and performance of all aspects of operations across multiple domains including base and facility operations, transport, and portable soldier power. The various composite branches of the DOD, as an organization, combine to form the single largest consumer of energy in the world – more than any other public or private entity and greater than more than 100 other nations. Energy consumption is the lifeblood of the U.S. military – and the supporting governmental infrastructure that facilitates and controls it.

Colorado’s Diverse and Valued Military

Colorado encompasses a diverse and vibrant military presence unique to only a very few locations in the United States. Colorado is not only home to six military installations, but also hosts operations of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Command, Air Force Space Command, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Strategic Command, Missile Defense Integrated Operations Center, Space Innovation and Development Center, Joint Functional Component Command-Integrated Missile Defense, and the National Security Space Institute.

Colorado’s largest installation, Fort Carson, is projecting a Soldier population of 26,000 by 2013, with 39,500 family members. The 302nd Airlift Wing (AFRC), Peterson AFB is also in the process of building an active duty associate C-130 squadron and has recently activated a Reserve Aeromedical Squadron. The 310th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, is the first Air Force Reserve Space Wing in the Air Force. The military missions in Colorado continue to grow appropriately in scope and mission.

Defense industry growth in the State follows naturally from the growing mission capability. Our six installations employ an internal workforce (military, government civilians, and contractors) of over 73,000 and an economic impact of approximately $6.52 billion.

Obama Proposed Budget more than doubles DoD funding for energy projects to $1B

Federal Times, February, 14, 2012

The administration is proposing to spend $1 billion to make the Defense Department more energy efficient, according to its proposed fiscal 2013 budget. The funds would more than double the $400 million DoD spent in fiscal 2010 on energy retrofits and renewable energy projects and making new buildings more energy efficient.

The request includes $150 million to improve the energy efficiency of facilities and $32 million to test new energy technologies for wide-scale deployment. Nearly 8.5 percent of the energy DoD produces and consumes comes from renewable energy, according to the administration. President Obama said in a Jan. 26 speech at Buckley Air Force Base near Denver that energy-efficiency efforts allow DoD to spend money on other projects.

"What our military understands is that if we're smart on energy, that saves DoD budgets that allow them to do a whole bunch of other things," Obama said.

Safe, Strong and Secure: Reducing America's Oil Dependence

America's dependence on oil is a threat to our national security and our economy. Growing demand and shrinking domestic production means America is importing more and more oil each year - much of it from the world's most unfriendly or unstable regions. We spend more than $200,000 per minute -- $13 million per hour -- on foreign oil, and more than $25 billion a year on Persian Gulf imports alone.

We can and must reclaim our freedom and secure a cleaner, safer energy future by investing in American jobs and taking the lead on efficient technology, green energy, more transportation choices, and other commonsense policies

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. - Kurt Vonnegut

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