He acknowledged that waste is sometimes inevitable in combat - Marines need to leave their trucks running at an IED stop outside the wire, for example - but data would give commanders the ability to discern the difference between necessary energy use and waste. "[Commanders] can't decide whether it's good or bad ... because no one is telling them, 'Half your idle is done inside the base, inside of the motor pool,' " Caley said. "So, they're not ... doing anything about it because they don't have a number that says, 'Wow, this is what I'm not using wisely.' " The next phase of the Marine Corps' energy-saving strategy will have more teeth; as Marine Corps Times has reported in the past, Marine officials have cited plans to hold individual units accountable for energy use over an established norm, the way Marine bases now give residents in military housing a fiscal penalty or bonus based on their power use. "I'm an operational guy; so what [holding units accountable] looks like in garrison, I'm not entirely sure," Caley said. "but I'll bet that looks like a power bill."
He acknowledged that waste is sometimes inevitable in combat - Marines need to leave their trucks running at an IED stop outside the wire, for example - but data would give commanders the ability to discern the difference between necessary energy use and waste. "[Commanders] can't decide whether it's good or bad ... because no one is telling them, 'Half your idle is done inside the base, inside of the motor pool,' " Caley said. "So, they're not ... doing anything about it because they don't have a number that says, 'Wow, this is what I'm not using wisely.' " The next phase of the Marine Corps' energy-saving strategy will have more teeth; as Marine Corps Times has reported in the past, Marine officials have cited plans to hold individual units accountable for energy use over an established norm, the way Marine bases now give residents in military housing a fiscal penalty or bonus based on their power use. "I'm an operational guy; so what [holding units accountable] looks like in garrison, I'm not entirely sure," Caley said. "but I'll bet that looks like a power bill."
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