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<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Challenge:<br>Energy consumes an ever-growing budget share<br>New energy initiatives also draw on investment resources</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">How do I meet policy mandates within cost and schedule, yet support a range of future operations?</span></strong></p>

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	<li style="text-align: left;">What are baseline and projected levels of fuel use or energy consumption?</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">Will current investment plans meet energy policy goals, directives, and mandates?</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">How to best invest in projects related to conservation or to alternative energy use?</li>
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<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">We help predict future energy use drivers, and<br>optimize across a set of potential project investments</span></strong></p>

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	<li style="text-align: left;">Apply proven analytics and optimization models</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">Track and forecast energy needs and trends</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">Identify optimal project investments, sensitive to conditions and risks</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">Assess plans for ability to meet policy goals</li>
	<li style="text-align: left;">Plan and fund the right projects with confidence</li>
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<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Plan and manage future energy requirements, and
select energy infrastructure projects for maximum impact</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://decforge.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Energy_Analytics.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4291" title="Energy_Analytics" src="http://decforge.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Energy_Analytics.png" alt="" width="325" height="215" /></a><strong><span style="color: #3f5410;">Example: US Navy and US Air Force
Fuel Use Predictive Modeling</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Challenge</strong>: Understand the potential risks and benefits of procurement and upgrade decisions on a range of operational energy expenditures</p>
<strong>Solution</strong>: Our staff partnered with the Navy and Air Force to model and visualize aggregate fuel consumption over time, with scenario-based "what if's" for individual platforms and across the fleet
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