Waging America's wars using renewable energy
The Pentagon is finding that clean power helps the US military execute its mission in big and small ways; it is now a major player
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A MAJOR player in US renewable energy happens to be a five-sided building in Virginia usually associated with deployment of power rather than consumption of it.
The US Department of Defense is the second-largest buyer of renewable electricity through deals meant to lock in long-term supply and provide incentives to developers of wind and solar projects, according to a database of more than 600 corporate power-purchase agreements (PPA) tracked by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). Only Google is a bigger buyer. The revelation provides one of the starkest examples yet of the same clean energy imperatives driving companies, cities, universities, and other federal agencies.
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