Canoochee Electric Wins $55 Million Hunter Army Airfield Microgrid Contract Under ERCIP

Canoochee Electric Membership Corp. of Reidsville, Georgia, won a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract for design-bid-build construction of an Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program microgrid and power-generation facilities in Savannah, Georgia. The firm-fixed-price award has a total potential value of $55.3 million, with completion estimated for April 25, 2029. The project is intended to strengthen electrical service at Hunter Army Airfield.

Hunter Army Airfield Microgrid Details

Canoochee will construct local power generation and the electrical infrastructure needed to connect it to the installation’s distribution system. The Defense Department’s project description calls for a natural-gas generation plant connected to the installation’s distribution switching station and natural-gas infrastructure. It describes generators, paralleling switchgear and transformers as principal components.

The planned microgrid also includes feeder-level controls designed to distribute power across the installation. A February 2025 Army environmental assessment describes the scale of the existing electric service at Hunter Army Airfield: Canoochee manages the privatized system serving about 662 buildings and 2,900 streetlights.

Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program Background

The Defense Department’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program funds installation projects intended to sustain essential energy service during disruptions while improving efficiency. A September 2019 National Renewable Energy Laboratory feasibility assessment recommended an 8-megawatt microgrid for Hunter Army Airfield, according to the department’s budget justification. That document estimated the project would cost $25.4 million at the planning stage in 2022, before the current construction award.

Award and Contractor Background

The Corps solicited one bid and received one. In August 2025, it had identified Canoochee as its intended contractor, citing the cooperative’s ownership of the distribution switching station to which the new generation and controls would connect.

Canoochee also holds a Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield energy-conservation contract with a potential value of $21 million and performance extending to July 2045. A separate electric-distribution services contract has a potential value of $8.6 million and a performance period extending to February 2054. Those awards document Canoochee’s other energy and utility work serving the installations.

This award was disclosed by the DoW in its daily press release. Additional contract details will be available on HigherGov in approximately 90 days under W912QR27CA003 after the contract is formally disclosed by the government.