NASA Awardees: KSC Vehicle Fleet Charging Expansion (Spencer Davis)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: FEDS Spotlight
Brief Description: Spencer Davis spearheaded KSC’s vehicle fleet charging expansion, optimizing their shift to a zero-emission fleet.

NASA Awardees: MSFC Water Leak Detection and Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project (Rhonda Truitt, William Berry, Brent Garber, Clark Lowery)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Project Award
Brief Description: MSFC initiated six pilot projects, including water leak detection and advanced metering infrastructure, aimed at foundational infrastructure enhancements for operational efficiency, energy and water conservation, safety risk reduction, and future capability improvements.

NASA Awardees: Johnny Bernal (WSTF)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Career Exceptional Service Award
Brief Description: For 32 years, Johnny Bernal has provided exceptional leadership and commitment in energy, water, and fleet management.

NASA Awardees: Frances Borato (GRC)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Career Exceptional Service Award
Brief Description: Ms. Frances Borato has demonstrated extraordinary commitment and technical excellence in both energy management and facilities stewardship throughout her career (30 plus years) at GRC.

NASA Awardees: Douglas J. Conover (JSC)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Career Exceptional Service Award
Brief Description: In his role as Water, Sewer, and Bridge Systems Manager, Mr. Conover has given more than 30 years of tireless dedication and superior service to JSC, Sonny Carter Training Facility, and Ellington Field.

NASA Awardees: Donald Swedinovich Jr. (GRC)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Career Exceptional Service Award
Brief Description: Mr. Donald Swedinovich has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to energy stewardship during his 50-year tenure at GRC.

NASA Awardees: Cory Taylor, Jennifer Hill, Karen Rivaud, Nathan Bickel, Matthew Pomeroy (KSC)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Contracting Award
Brief Description: In July of 2021, the KSC Utility Energy Services Contract (UESC) Phase 1 team completed a four-year-long effort to award a $19.4 million UESC to Florida Power and Light.

NASA Awardees: Evelyn Baskin, Ernest Wayne Phillips, Sarah Austin-Blevins, Andrew Komm, Sherry McCray (GSFC)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Project Award
Brief Description: To address GSFC’s energy reduction and facility operational performance goals more effectively, the GSFC Energy Team developed an Existing Building Commissioning/Retro-commissioning project in four of its highest energy-consuming buildings improving equipment serving 640,456 square feet.

NASA Awardees: Marcus Watkins, Jose Flores, Amanda Hezel, Galen Brown, Scott Trotier (JPL)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Award – Project Award
Brief Description In October 2020, JPL completed the implementation of a landmark data center resilience, consolidation, and efficiency project. NASA leveraged an Energy Savings Performance Contract to implement the project.

NASA Awardees: 2021 Agency Energy/Water Outreach and Awareness Team
Sponsoring Entity: NASA Headquarters
Award Title: 2021 Headquarters Honor Awards – Excellence in Collaboration Award
Brief Description: For outstanding collaboration in fostering an agency-wide culture of energy and water conservation while also reducing Center energy and water management program workload.

NASA Awardees: KSC Central Campus Headquarters Building (Scott Hunt)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: FEDS Spotlight
Brief Description: Scott Hunt’s leadership in sustainable building design led to the achievement of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification of the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s newly constructed Central Campus Headquarters Phase 1 Building.

NASA Awardees: MSFC Building 4221
Sponsoring Entity: Green Building Initiative
Award Title: Green Globes Project of the Year
Brief Description: This project earned the Project of the Year designation for its innovative and thoughtful sustainability achievements, implemented early in design by a robust integrated design process.

NASA Awardees: WSTF Solar PV Project (Albino Hernandez, Juan Tiscareno, Chris Wolf)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: FEDS Spotlight
Brief Description: This project team developed and built a pioneering 1.64 megawatt photovoltaic system for the NASA White Sands Test Facility, with 2019 completion resulting in enhanced energy security and resiliency through lightning protection and a hurricane rated self-ballasting racking system and hardware.

NASA Awardees: Agency-wide Commitment to DOE 50001 Ready Program
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Awards – Director’s Award
Brief Description: NASA represents the first federal agency that has made a headquarters-driven, agency-wide commitment to the Department of Energy’s 50001 Ready program.

NASA Awardees: MSFC Flexible Workplace Initiative
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Awards – Project Award
Brief Description: In FY 2019, MSFC developed and implemented a plan to utilize the first Friday of the pay period as a Flex Work Day (FWD) across MSFC, saving more than $460,000 in energy expenditures.

NASA Awardees: GRC Fleet Management (Andrew Deenanauth, Jacob Bramley, Sandra Valenti)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: Federal Energy and Water Management Awards – Program Award
Brief Description: NASA’s GRC Fleet Management Program implemented new policies, strategies, and projects to reduce vehicle emissions and fuel usage and meet agency goals in FY 2019.

NASA Awardees: KSC Enhanced-use Lease Agreement with FPL (Nicholas Murdock)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: FEDS Spotlight
Brief Description: Nicholas Murdock led a multidiscipline team to successfully develop an enhanced-use lease agreement that enabled the NASA KSC to host a Florida Power and Light 74.5 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic system expansion, significantly assisting NASA in meeting its renewable energy goals.

NASA Awardees: JSC Combined Heat and Power Project (Kevin McCue)
Sponsoring Entity: Federal Energy Management Program
Award Title: FEDS Spotlight
Brief Description: Facing numerous obstacles and challenges throughout the project, JSC Energy Manager Kevin McCue led a large team of utilities, contractors, and government employees to successfully implement the high-pressure natural gas procurement contract that now serves JSC’s new 11.9 MW combined heat and power plant.