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CHAPTER 23

Case Study 5:

Governmental Facility—

Mission Critical

Michael A. Anthony

ust as CHP makes a BTU work twice in a single process, can we make the financing
for energy conservation work twice on behalf of homeland security? There is
Jsynergy, though subtle, between the issues. Innovative regulation to merge these
objectives is tracking in the public sector for facilities related to safety, disaster response
and recovery.Consider the following.

1. In Connecticut, the Departments of Education and Emergency Management
and Homeland Security have been directed to establish a municipal renewable
energy program that gives priority to grants for disaster relief centers in high
schools. 1
2. In New York, proposed legislation allows for the New York State Energy Research
and Development Authority to make financial assistance available for develop-
ment of facilities of refuge to be used in disaster response and recovery. 2
3. The City of Chicago has undertaken a pilot project for a new generation of
police stations that includes modular CHP-based prime movers. 2
4. The Town of Epping, New Hampshire, has installed microturbines in its
wastewater treatment plant. 3

Power security is not a purely technical problem, nor one that can be solved by
financing individual point solutions. High nine reliability, common in e-business, is
now influencing the rehabilitation of emergency management facilities through a new
requirement that appears in Article 708 of the 2008 National Electric Code. When fully
realized, the Critical Operations Power Systems (COPS) Article 708 will penetrate silos
of thinking about power security at the state and local level (a detailed definition of
COPS can be found in the Glossary).

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