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Ensuring energy use is both environmentally friendly and cost-effective helps to build Iraq’s security capabilities, a key infrastructure planner said here. Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas N. Williams, an infrastructure planner for Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, said he’s found the best way to be environmentally friendly while saving costs is to ensure the highest possible degree of energy efficiency. Three recent projects are good examples of how the command is weaving these various threads together, Williams said. IMPROVED DISTRIBUTION The first is an upgrade to the internal power generation and distribution system in Taji that will eliminate the need for more than 175 independent generators, consolidating their work to 25 generators operating in three sites. The ability to run fewer generators at peak power loads versus more generators at lower loads will … Read entire article »