Request for Information (RFI) for Marine Corps Base Hawaii - Kaneohe Bay Energy Resilience   13

Background
The Department of the Navy (DON) is pleased to present this Request for Information (RFI) on behalf of Marine Corps Base Hawaii for a rare opportunity to gather insights, expertise, and potential solutions from industry experts, developers, and stakeholders to identify interest in a long-term partnership to achieve energy security and resilience, consistent with Department of Defense (DoD) priorities for energy security and energy independence.
MCBH, located on the windward (eastern) side of the island Oahu, holds significant importance for national security due to its strategic location within the Indo-Pacific region. The base serves as a critical hub for U.S. Marine Corps operations, training, and readiness, and it plays a pivotal role in enhancing the United States' military presence, deterrence capabilities, and response capabilities in the region. MCBH relies on the commercial power grid (Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO)) for its energy needs. Transmission lines over the Koolau mountains provide power to the Windward side of Oahu (to include MCBH), representing a single point of failure for the electric power supply to MCBH and the east side of Oahu.

Work Details
This RFI seeks imaginative and pioneering information on the potential for long-term partnerships to develop power generation capability and energy storage with microgrid controls to electrically island the installation during external electrical grid outages or other threats to the security of MCBH.
This capability is required to be compatible with the operational mission of MCBH by providing a fully dispatchable base load and reliable power that can potentially island the installation. MCBH welcomes innovative solutions, technologies, and concepts that can be utilized to achieve reliable power quality, potential for restoring power without reliance on commercial distribution, independent microgrid, and peak load sustainment, 24 hours a day, during a prolonged disruption in commercial energy supplies, thereby enhancing energy security, operational capability, strategic flexibility and resource availability for MCBH.
The DoD is taking proactive steps to achieve a more sustainable and secure energy future while fulfilling its critical mission requirements.

Place of Performance
Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay