Air Force adopts new energy flight plan

The Air Force announced Tuesday it has adopted a new energy flight plan that advocates for a more holistic approach to energy projects and clean energy solutions and aims to improve "energy resiliency."

Miranda Ballentine, assistant service secretary for installations, environment and energy, signed off on the 20-year plan Jan. 6.

"This plan, along with our recent policies, codifies the importance energy resiliency has to the Air Force mission and identifies how we are going to move forward," Ballentine said in a Jan. 17 Air Force press release. "We need to take a holistic approach to energy projects to provide resilient, cost-effective, cleaner energy solutions to ensure we can continue to operate when our energy supplies are interrupted."