Representatives of the Pacific Energy Assurance Renewables
Summary
Representatives of the Pacific Energy Assurance Renewables Laboratory place their hands onto a symbolic mound of earth during a blessing ceremony Dec. 17, 2019, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The ceremony was held to honor a microgrid project, designed to provide new layers of energy assurance and self-sustaining power sources to the 154th Wing, The project is a collaborative effort by partners from Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies the Air Force Research Laboratory, the National Guard Bureau, the Hawaii Air National Guard, Navy Facilities Command the Hawaii-based Architecture and Engineering firm, Burns and McDonnel. Hawaii Gov. David Ige (orange lei), joined the representatives in the ceremonial rituals. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier)