# Energy Technology Demonstration/Validation

**R-2A activity** of project 514 — Environmental Security Technology Certification Program  
**Program element:** 0603851D8Z — Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP)  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z

## Summary

This activity requests $46.9M in FY2027, 38% of project 514, down 4.2% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Demonstrate and validate technologies that improve the performance, cybersecurity, and robustness of installation buildings as well as water and energy infrastructure. Technologies include zero-trust principles applied to facility related control systems, long-duration energy storage added to electric microgrids, and building thermal energy networks that link buildings via an ultra-efficient ambient temperature loop, facilitating shared heating and cooling resources. Additionally, investments will focus on assessment of regional transmission grid resilience, guiding investment and engagement strategies to ensure reliable supplies of energy needed for critical missions.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $2.068 million reflects a contraction on the focus of demonstrations that involve energy and water resilience technologies, reflecting adjustments to promote Government efficiencies from efficiency in alignment with Executive Order 14222.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Demonstrations of innovative technologies and technology transition approaches are continuing to improve installation energy and water resilience in accordance with DoW Instruction 4170.11, improve building performance, indoor air quality, energy and water efficiency and reduce facilities’ utility and operational costs. Demonstrations are being initiated for integrated solutions that combine facility energy demand reduction, advanced district energy systems, energy storage and load flexibility to improve building-level and system-wide efficiency and reliability. Integrated solutions provide benefit through cumulative improvements in facility and equipment efficiency that reduce whole-system life cycle costs. Solutions vary by regional factors and projects will be selected to validate system design approaches that are tailorable to the Department’s installation portfolio. The program will seek to facilitate teaming with key stakeholders to leverage expertise in system design and analysis, cybersecurity of control system, systems integration, project development and utility services.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Continual planning multi-year demonstrations for microgrid and energy storage technologies that improved installation energy system reliability and resilience and reduced the time and cost of microgrid design and development. High efficiency building HVAC technologies demonstrations will continue to establish life-cycle cost and indoor air quality improvement performance data. Planning of multi-year demonstrations for water efficiency and resilience technologies and analysis. Technology transition efforts through targeted partnerships with energy services companies (ESCOs) and utilities continued. These demonstrations will address requirements for installation energy resilience stated in DoD Instruction 4170.11, and energy and water efficiency objectives outlined in the DoD Installation Energy Strategy. Energy resilience solutions are being sought that integrate installation and operational energy assets to provide dual-use benefits.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 39.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 49.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 46.9 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 514

- [Natural Hazards and Installation Resilience Technology Demonstration/Validation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a3) — FY2027 41.8
- [Environmental Technology Demonstration/Validation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a0) — FY2027 33.3
- Sustainable Technologies Evaluation and Demonstration Program — FY2027 3.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603851D8Z project 514 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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