UNCLASSIFIED ROUTINE R 281641Z SEP 16 FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 063/16 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/SEP// SUBJ/ENERGY ACTION MONTH// RMKS/1. Our Navy and Marine Corps, uniquely, provide presence around the globe, around the clock ensuring stability, reassuring allies, deterring adversaries, and providing the nation’s leaders with options in times of crisis. We are America’s away team because Sailors and Marines, equally in times of peace and war, are not just in the right place at the right time, but in the right place all the time. There is no next best thing to being there. 2. In every case, from high-end combat to irregular warfare to humanitarian assistance and disaster response, our naval assets get on station faster, we stay longer, we bring what we need with us, and because our ships are sovereign U.S. territory, we can act without having to ask anyone’s permission to get the job done. 3. Power how we use energy to make us better warfighters, how we keep others from using it as a weapon against us, and how we respond to climate change is a fundamental enabler of presence. As a force that operates on, under, above, and from the sea, no one sees asclearly the effects of, or is called on as much to respond to, climate change as Americas Navy and Marine Corps. The changes we see firsthand affect how, when, where and why we operate. 4. Competition for finite resources threatens global stability from the Spratly Islands to the Gulf of Guinea and from pole to pole. Warmer temperatures are changing the world’s economic landscape by opening previously impassable trade routes trade routes the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps keep open for the entire globe. Rising seas threaten domestic seaports and bases, as we are seeing in places like Louisiana and Virginia, and they pose an existential threat to America’s international partners such as the Pacific island nation Karabati. 5. That is why we have taken action to position the Department of the Navy as a world leader in energy innovation, contributing to geo -political stability, enhanced domestic security, emerging technology development and environmental preservation. 6. In just seven years, the Navy envisioned, tested, and deployed the Great Green Fleet, a Strike Group steaming entirely on blended biofuels and nuclear power. We established the Renewable Energy Program Office, an initiative to partner with federal, state, local, and private sector leaders on alternative energy projects resulting in $90 million in savings, $62 million in energy upgrades, 170 megawatts of access to power during outages, and 22 million tons of CO2 abated. 7. Our Department historically the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels has invested in technologies like hybrid-electric drives for our ships and Mobile Electric Hybrid Power Sources (MEHPS) for our Marines, which have contributed to a reduction in oil consumption by 15% in the Navy and 60% in the Marine Corps. Renewable energy now accounts for more than 50%, or 1.2 gigawatts, of our power supply ashore, a level that will be matched at sea by 2020, thanks to the ambitious goals we set in 2009. 8. Our pursuit of alternative energy has made our SEAL teams stealthier, Marines more agile, and ships and bases less vulnerable, and it gives the U.S. a strategic advantage by reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Yet still, to quote John Paul Jones, We have not yet begun to fight. 9. The President has proclaimed October 2016 as Energy Action Month. I find it no coincidence that October also happens to be the birth month of our Navy. As we recognize our proud heritage in all facets, I think that 241 years of energy innovation is among those achievements worthy of celebration. Just as we pioneered the switch from sail to coal, coal to oil, and oil to nuclear for propulsion, our Navy and Marine Corps are now leading in research and development of technologies such as biofuels, fusion reactors, and high- capacity batteries. 10. So I encourage all Sailors, Marines and civil servants to get on board, participate in the Navy’s Energy Warrior Campaign and the Marine Corps Energy Ethos, submit your ideas via The Hatch, our online crowdsourcing platform, and be disciplined and deliberate in your use of energy our status as the greatest expeditionary fighting force the world has ever known depends on it. Our combined efforts will ensure we remain, as our Navy motto says, Semper Fortis, Always Courageous, and in the words of our Marine Corps motto, Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful. 11. The point of contact for this effort is Mr. Joseph Bryan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy) at 571-256-7877 or joseph.m.bryan1@navy.mil. 12. Released by Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//