Electrical Assessment, Capacity, and Demand Study for Fort Wainwright, Alaska

Headquarters, Installation Management Command (HQ IMCOM) commissioned a study team under the leadership of the Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), to determine the electric power requirements of Fort Wainwright, Alaska (FWA) through the year 2020, and energy supply alternatives to meet these requirements. Of particular importance was that FWA management projected that the installation might experience electrical power shortages during the impending winter of 2006/2007 due to increases in energy demand resulting from troop deployments, new construction at the installation, reduction in the number of facilities scheduled for demolition, and the temporary loss of some Central Heating and Power Plant (CHPP) generating capacity. The study team was dispatched to FWA in May 2006 to: (1) determine if there was an imminent problem, (2) identify the most promising courses of action, and (3) identify options and estimate costs to meet the installation's power requirements through the year 2020. The original document contains color images. Prepared in collaboration with Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA and WorleyParsons Resources and Energy, Reading, PA.