The new electrical and computer engineering building (ECE building), which began construction on January 13, 2012, will be a unique green building on our campus. It is designed to be the most energy efficient engineering building in the world. With the full planned solar energy complement, the building is likely to even achieve Net Zero Energy status. The facility would be the largest net-zero energy building in the United States. The goal of this project is to prepare a major solar energy component to support this building. This project will use seed funding from the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) in the amount of $150,000 to initiate work on the solar energy components of the new structure, as a way of participating in this green building. The SSC support will help make the facility and its solar resources unique educational living energy laboratories. Students in energy-oriented classes will be able to work hands-on with the energy system and the solar generation plant. Students in other programs on campus would be exposed to one of the largest solar energy installations in Illinois, and will be able to track its operation and view its components from a web site as well as inside the new building. The solar energy system - under discussion for the new ECE building includes two major elements: 1) Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof of the building itself. Estimated peak capacity is approximately 300 kW (about four times the size of the BIF array); 2) Solar PV panels mounted above the top level of the North Campus Parking Structure at the corner of Goodwin Ave. and University Ave. in Urbana. This structure will serve as the parking area for tp.e new building. It should accommodate at least 1000 kW of solar PV panels (more than 25 times the College of Business Instructional facility [BIF] array size).