Solution Description:

Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) and RUNWITHIT Synthetics (RWI) Reimagine Energy Culture, Policy, and Education in a Single Synthetic Environment (SSE). Imagine your Synthetic Base –a Single Synthetic Environment or energy future lab for your base and your people. The Synthetic Base is a complete geospatially accurate living environment composed of sophisticated and interconnected models that are intended to be all-inclusive, encompassing the military community, their lives and livelihoods, motivations, energy choices, existing and new energy technology, grid ties, dependencies, economics, and barriers. The SSE includes climate, housing, critical mission and campus infrastructure, along with mission readiness considerations, energy security and resilience impacts, and sustainability outcomes. The SSE is an in-silico lab for the qualification of new technologies, optimized procedures, and the discovery of knock-on effects of policy change alternatives. For the AFWERX challenge, the EPRI and RWI partnership brings together EPRI’s deep energy system expertise and RWI’s mature SSE platform and methodology to supply a highly collaborative, hyper-localized approach to address the unique challenges and opportunities of reimagining each base’s energy assets. The SSE enables rapid and repeated exploration of alternatives and scenarios to support successful outcomes.