The United States Department of Defense terrestrial photovoltaic program: a 1994 status report

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has an aggressive, wide-ranging strategy to broaden photovoltaics (PV) use for military purposes. The DoD potential market is immense. Some estimates have placed this market as high as 3800 megawatts (MW) over the long term. The key organization to develop and implement a PV utilization strategy is the DoD PV Review Committee. Funding for PV in the DoD is through the Energy Conservation Investment Program (ECIP), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and through operations and maintenance budgets. Procurement actions are (or about to be) initiated for ten separate projects representing nearly 1.4 MW of PV during 1994 or early 1995. These range in size from 60 to 450 kilowatts (kW) and are primarily intermediate-sized PV-diesel hybrid systems with one large grid interactive project.