USMA Leading the Way to Water & Energy Resilience

Published on August 1, 2022

The U.S. Military Academy is leading the way toward meeting the Army’s goal to strengthen water and energy resilience on its installations. Over the last few years, an interdisciplinary environmental research team led by LTC Andrew Pfluger, academy professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (GENE), has been working to advance energy resilience at West Point through a system that converts waste generated and collected at its Target Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant into energy, using a technology called anaerobic co-digestion. They have been awarded a $925,000 competitive award over three years.

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