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Kirk Phillips is Director of the Office of Energy Assurance for the U.S. Air Force.
Military bases are important and need reliable supplies of energy and water for members of the Armed Forces to conduct their work. They also sit on big swaths of land, necessary for the energy transition to site renewables and other large utility infrastructure.
That is where the Air Force Office of Energy Assurance comes in. AF OEA serves as the integrator of energy and water resilience efforts by ensuring projects align with installation needs and with the three goals of the Department of the Air Force Installation Energy Strategic Plan; identify enabling system vulnerabilities, improve resilience planning, and ensure resilience results.
AF OEA wants to talk to energy and utilities companies companies about helping with needed resiliency of energy and water at Air Force bases. The U.S. Air Force's Director of the Office of Energy Assurance Kirk Phillips explains here how utility partnerships can benefit both parties.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What is your role and what is a typical day like?
Kirk Phillips: I'm the Director of the Air Force Office of Energy Assurance. The Air Force realized a few years back that we needed to consolidate power and water — mainly utilities — because a lot of our energy needs involve gas, water, and wastewater.