A smorgasbord of new clean energy projects at Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base shows what’s needed to create an economy “built to
last,” said a top White House environmental aide who visited them
Friday.
Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley visited
a solar-panel-topped basketball court, a device using dry cells to
inject hydrogen into car engines and an energy-saving,
ceramic-paint-topped building.
She quoted the Obama administration’s economic catchphrase as
she proclaimed these test projects are examples that should be
transferred to civilian life to build a clean-energy economy.
During the tour, base officials discussed plans to have the
California-based Sun Edison utility build enough solar panels to
boost the base’s solar capacity to 14.5 megawatts, or about 35
percent of the total power used there. The project starts
construction in March and is slated to finish in May, officials
said.
They added that the project will put the base above the national
standard of 71.5 percent renewable energy sources for military
facilities. The base has two solar-panel facilities providing about
six megawatts of power to homes.
Sutley, touring with Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, saw:
• An array of photovoltaic panels under construction that will
chill water that in turn will cool an educational-and-recreational
center for base
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