The department of energy's federal energy management program works with its stakeholders to enable federal agencies to meet energy-related goals, identify affordable solutions, facilitate…

The Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program awarded a $4.0 million Project Grant to the United States Coast Guard under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to enhance energy security and operational resilience at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Maryland. The award, obligated on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027, funds a comprehensive microgrid infrastructure project designed to enable sustained operations during electric utility outages. Key deliverables include integration of existing onsite natural gas and landfill gas generators with new distributed energy resources—including solar photovoltaic arrays and a battery energy storage system—all managed through a Responsive Energy Control Center. Additional products and services encompass a right-sized natural gas boiler at Building 15 to replace an oversized central steam system, compressed air system upgrades, enhanced HVAC controls, and electrical distribution improvements across the facility.

This energy security initiative directly supports the Coast Guard Yard's primary industrial mission while providing operational resilience to tenant commands, including U.S. Coast Guard Sector Maryland–National Capital Region, which maintains responsibility for maritime security during National Special Security Events within the National Capital Region. The project incorporates ongoing operations and maintenance activities to ensure long-term sustainability and mission continuity for decades following implementation.

The department of energy's federal energy management program works with its stakeholders to enable federal agencies to meet energy-related goals, identify affordable solutions, facilitate public-private partnerships, and provide energy leadership to the country by identifying and leveraging government best practices. This assisting federal facilities with energy conservation technologies (affect) award funding will enhance the servicing infrastructure throughout the united states coast guard (USCG) yard, directly enabling operations in the immediate term, as its facilities are modernized and expanded, and for decades thereafter. IT is focused first on the USCG yard's primary industrial mission yet also adds resilience to the operational tenant commands within the installation, such as USCG sector maryland - national capital region. Sector maryland - NCR is the operational unit responsible the maritime sector of any national special security events (nsses) that occur within the NCR. Notably, the project incorporates on-going operations and maintenance activities to enable a long-term success. The scope includes a comprehensive energy security and mission continuity project to enhance the resiliency of the USCG yard. A microgrid will provide a seamless transition to sustained operations for the USCG yard during an electric loss of utility (LOU). Dispatched and balanced continuously from the responsive energy control center (REC), the existing onsite natural gas and landfill gas generators will be coupled to additional distributed energy resources (DER), including new solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays, and a battery energy storage system (bess). Additional scope includes a new right-sized natural gas boiler at building 15 to provide redundancy and a more cost efficient and downsized central steam system. Other ecms will include upgrades of the compressed air system, upgraded HVAC and controls, and electrical distribution upgrades.