Pilot program to install propane-powered generators at a domestic defense industrial base facility

(a) Program required Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and the Environment shall carry out a pilot program under which the Assistant Secretary shall install propane-powered generators at an organic industrial base facility. Under the pilot program, such generators shall— (1) be used in tandem with an on-site microgrid in order to improve the resiliency and redundancy of power generation at the facility; and (2) be powered by conventional or renewable propane. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) The term microgrid has the meaning given such term in section 641(b)(6) of the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17231(b)(6)). (2) The term propane has the meaning given such term in section 3(6) of the Propane Education and Research Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 6402(6)). (c) Termination The authority to carry out the pilot program under this section shall terminate on the date that is five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.