Posts Tagged ‘enhanced use leasing’

The Navy’s plans for a developer to turn 104 acres at Saufley Field into a research/business park under the enhanced use leasing program appears to be stopped in its tracks due to the cost of moving several facilities to nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola on the Florida Panhandle. The Navy had selected DCK Worldwide to develop the parcel, but as the two parties began negotiating a development plan, the project ran into problems, reported the Pensacola News Journal …

The Air Force has selected New Generation Biomass, a Chicago-based developer of renewable and biomass energy facilities, to construct a 20-megawatt biomass/waste-to-energy facility at Holloman AFB, N.M. The enhanced use leasing project will cover 80 acres and burn wood from forest thinning, landfills, orchard pruning, sawmill residue, used pallets and other sources to generate energy …

An Air Force plan to lease 3,300 acres at Edwards AFB, Calif., to a developer to build a 440-megawatt solar field is not being slowed due to a dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over how to split revenues coming to the federal government from the enhanced use leasing project, as previously asserted in DC 360. The June 12 story cited an earlier Federal Times article, which claimed that BLM owned the land slated to be used for the project. And because the Air Force no longer planned to use the property for military purposes, the civilian agency believed the land should be returned …

Officials in Okaloosa County, Fla., are wondering whether the developer of a hotel complex on land owned by Eglin Air Force Base will be required to pay property taxes. The Emerald Breeze Resort Group signed a 50-year deal with the Air Force under the enhanced use leasing program to build and manage a resort on Okaloosa Island located on Florida’s Gulf coast. During a county commission meeting last month, the developer and the Air Force said the tax question was not yet settled …

Attorneys for the Army and Air Force warned contractors that if they reveal a novel or innovative idea for an energy project during a casual sit-down with officials, they may not be able to keep it a secret. “If you come in with a really great idea,” said Karen White, an attorney with the Air Force Legal Operations Agency, the Air Force may “use it as the basis for an RFP …

If you haven’t been paying close attention to the Air Force’s renewable energy initiatives, the numbers may surprise you. To date, the service has a total of 131 renewable energy projects at 56 bases with a capacity of 54 megawatts. Those projects generated 79,106 megawatt hours of power in fiscal 2011. Still, officials acknowledge they have a lot of work ahead of them before they can reach the Air Force’s goal of producing 1 gigawatt of renewable energy by 2020. But they are on their way …

The Bureau of Land Management is insisting it should be a partner in any deals the military makes with the private sector to generate renewable energy on land BLM manages. The dispute already has slowed a deal the Air Force is negotiating with Fotowatio Renewable Ventures to lease 3,228 acres at Edwards AFB, Calif., for a 450-megawatt solar project, reports Federal Times. An Army plan to lease more than 13,000 acres at Fort Irwin, Calif., to the Clark Energy Group for a 500-megawatt solar project also will require BLM approval …

Interest is high among energy developers for the Army’s pending solicitation to develop large-scale renewable energy projects at its installations. The draft request for proposals — to acquire $7 billion worth of electricity over 30 years through a multi-award task order contract — was issued in February and prompted 900 comments …

Despite its apparent lack of interest in discussing the possibility of additional base closure rounds, the House Armed Services’ Readiness Subcommittee is sufficiently curious as to how long-term commitments the services have made in conjunction with defense real estate projects would be affected by future closures that it requests GAO to study the issue. The panel’s request to GAO to look at the impact of base closures on alternatively financed projects is included in the report language accompanying its section of the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill …

The Air Force, Army and Navy each will strive to produce 1 gigawatt of renewable energy to power their installations by 2025, the White House said Wednesday. The services will rely on private sector financing through authorities such as power purchase agreements, enhanced use leasing, energy savings performance contracts and utility energy savings contracts to develop the new sources of clean energy, including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal …