The 20.8 acre Solar Farm on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign South Farms is a Power Purchase Agreement with Phoenix Solar South Farms, LLC, producing an estimated 7, 864 MWh/year of solar energy used solely by the Urbana campus.

A Smart Grid uses electronic controls to adjust energy demand in real-time.  By incorporating direct digital controls at many levels of the electrical grid, campus will be able to shave the energy demand as needed during peak times.  This includes digital controls at district levels, building zones, and even rooms or specific equipment.  Because there are significant costs to increase power generation at certain times, the University can save money by reducing the energy demand.  With a smart campus grid, our Energy Services team can proactively select which equipment, buildings, or distric

The ongoing initiative to upgrade building energy system controls to Direct Digital Controls (DDC) allows real time energy metering, controlled set-backs, and system scheduling.  This enhances the capability of the Thermal Energy Storage (TES) to shift electrical demand which is currently capable of realizing a 5 MW shift.  An Energy Management Control Center (EMC2) is planned to leverage the enhanced controls to further conserve energy and provide demand response.  Load forecasting and economic asset dispatch will be incorporated with market information to optimize results.  A Utility Prod

The Utilities Production and Distribution Master Plan addresses Illinois’ energy future. The plan, approved by the Chancellor’s Capital Review Committee in September 2015, is a recognized report associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign master planning process.

This project was to fund the development of a large-scale food waste composting facility on the University’s property, in order to compost food waste from University dining halls.  This project was precipitated by the commitment made by the University in the 2010 Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP): “The University will commit to… a large‐scale food composting project by 2012.”

The University has worked to restore the 2.7-acre no-mow zone at the southwest corner of Florida Avenue and Orchard Street, as one of the campus’ first prairie plantings.  This restoration is designed to educate, beautify, and inspire. It will serve as a highly visible public symbol of our commitments to (1) the historic ecological legacy and the native species once found in this complex ecosystem and (2) campus-wide efforts toward sustainability and carbon neutral practices.

In order to connect commuters with other commuters traveling from the same origin to campus, or from campus to the same destination, the University should provide a ride-matching program.  Before this internet, there was a car-pool board on a wall in the Illini Union.  Now, there are simple electronic tools for finding ride sharing partners.  However, there is a need to be careful about who you select as a ride sharing contact.  There are numerous programs that utilize social media to help review potential ridesharing partners before contacting them to share a ride.  The campus needs to ide

The iCAP 2020 objective 3.5 is to "Reduce net air travel emissions from FY14 baseline: 50% by FY24 and 100% by FY30." The responsible campus unit for championing this objective is iSEE.

The iCAP 2020 objective 3.4.3 is to "Establish telecommut-ing policies for the campus by FY24." The responsible campus unit for championing this objective is IHR with F&S.

Facilities & Services (F&S) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign operates a fleet of nearly 300 vehicles supporting maintenance activities across this campus. F&S is making a commitment to lead the University in reaching the iCAP goals related to University motor vehicle transportation. The primary F&S fleet, the Truck Pool, meets two main criteria that allow it to lead the University in attaining the transportation related iCAP goals: