Air Force and industry leaders discussed energy initiatives and the "greening" of McGuire Air Force Base at the Air Force Sustainable Energy Conference, June 2 at the Rutgers University Cook Campus Center in New Brunswick, N.J.
The forum, which is part of the Air Force Week in Philadelphia celebration, featured keynote speaker The Honorable William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Installation, Environment and Logistics, as well as speakers from McGuire AFB and other Air Force subject-matter experts, Rutgers University, the General Electric Solar Technologies Division, and others.
The conference served as a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and technologies for energy conservation that are applicable to private and public sector operations and facilities alike.
Officials from McGuire, which was designated a model energy base by the Secretary of the Air Force in March 2007, discussed various initiatives that have been taken or are currently being planned to reduce the base’s energy consumption by 50 percent by 2012 and become energy sustainable by 2015.
The conference was open to military and civic leaders, as well as industry workers.
