Green energy plan for British bases.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/6floob3

Since British troops are planned to be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 3 years time, is this Green energy plan, worth the money it will cost to be implemented?

[Huderon]

What money ?

///The MoD's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) agency has invited contractors to put forward ideas for how remote bases could switch to renewable energy sources.///

All the MoD have done is to ask contractors to come up with ideas and suggestions for ways to reduce the reliance on diesel in order to minimise the number of fuel convoys required .

[rov1100]

From the Generals spiel from on the ground I thought we were winning the war and soon there will be no terrorists to fight. Maybe they had in mind the number of IEDs still left in the ground from those past insurgents.

If it solely down to the costs of transportation quibbling about pennies when we have spent £bns on this unwinnable war seems a bit unreal.

[anotheoldgit]

Huderon

You ask what money?

Do you think that these contractors are going to provide the MoD's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) agency with ideas and suggestions free of charge?

And if they are good enough to say, 'provide them with a free estimate' there will have to be money spent in the finish to implement these ideas and suggestions.

[Huderon]

Yes, AOG, the contractors will provide the suggestions and ideas free of charge, along with costings, in the hope that this will persuade the MoD to make purchases in the future.

For now this is purely an information gathering exercise, not a bidding process. Until the MoD actually place orders, they are not spending any money on it.