“The Defense Department has already become a leader in some areas of renewable power,” noted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
in 2008. “The U.S. Navy is powering its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
with a 3.8 megawatt wind/diesel hybrid plant, the largest in the world.
The Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake, California, uses a
geothermal energy plant (built in the 1970s) and is a net contributor to
the local commercial electric grid. A project being tested at the Diego
Garcia Naval Base in the Indian Ocean will generate electricity from
temperature differences between the ocean’s surface and deep water. And a
14.2 megawatt photovoltaic array, again the largest in the world,
became operational at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada in December 2007.”
—"Using Military Might for a Cooler World," Rocky Mountain Institute, 2010
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