October 2024 Buyers Share Report
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,182.4 Megawatt hours.
The October 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
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RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,182.4 Megawatt hours.
The October 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a total of 49,467,491 kWh of green power in FY24. Which is 14% of total electricity use!
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the September 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1,086.9 Megawatt hours.
The September 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the August 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 970.8 Megawatt hours.
The August 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the June 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1,739.5 Megawatt hours.
The June 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Please see the included link to the live dashboard of the Energy Farms Agrivoltaic Solar Array. This link also includes data for the Geothermal and traditional HVAC at the farm.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the May 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1,549.6 Megawatt hours.
The May 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Hi Daphne,
Have you had any discussion with Housing dining about piloting composting in their catering operations?
I believe we could encourage them to lead a pilot for that.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
I just spoke with Thurman today during our final iCAP ZW team meeting, and he has informed me that Dining will be moving their catering operations from Housing Food Stores to Florida Avenue Residence Hall while HFS undergoes construction. For that year, they will use FAR’s existing Grind2Energy. When they move Catering back to HFS, they intend to have a sixth Grind2Energy installed there and ready to use.
Thank you,
Daphne
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,750.03 Megawatt hours.
The April 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the March 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 3,001.00 Megawatt hours.
The March 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the February 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,425.1 Megawatt hours.
The February 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the January 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,078 Megawatt hours.
The January 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
https://ece.illinois.edu/about/calendar/eceb-anniversary
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was certified as the university’s first zero-energy facility in January 2023. Join the ECE Department and The Grainger College of Engineering to celebrate this milestone on the path to building a more sustainable future.
When: Wednesday January 24, 2024 from 4 p.m.
Where: Electrical & Computer Engineering Building Atrium, 306 N. Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
The EPA GPP has realeased a 2022 year in review graphic and data. Please see the attached graphic.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the December 2023 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,116.9 Megawatt hours.
The December 2023 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.
Attached are photos from geothermal drilling which will help power the new Wymer hall.
Good morning, Mike!
Great to hear from you. Absolutely can provide you with some additional information on both of those procurement pathways:
The University is a member of a purchasing co-op which provides pre-negotiated pricing for a variety of solutions – including microgrids – which enables them to purchase directly through Sourcewell without needing to go out to bid. Please see attached for an example of the Siemens Sourcewell contract offerings and below for the University’s member information:
Siemens could design, develop, own, implement and maintain a turn key energy system allowing the University to avoid capital investment and simply pay a “subscription cost” if you will for all their energy needs for I-ACT. This would also enable them to stay up to date on new technologies as they come on line. Please see attached “4-Steps for Integrating EaaS” for additional information.
Again, we would be very happy to get on a call to walk through how to customize either of these offerings to meet their needs in cooperation with the work they are doing with AECOM.
Could be a really exciting collaboration!
I warmly welcome your thoughts.
Thank you and
All the best!
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Kevin,
Here is the info I received from Siemend for your review.
Thanks
Mike
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Hello,
Regarding the ongoing discussion of the electrical microgrid design (including PV panels on site) for U20029:IACT the PSC has wondered if UIUC has ever participated in either of this type of programs for procuring such systems by what appears a more design/build method?
Kevin
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Good Afternoon Aaron and Graham,
Can you advise if the attached Sourcewell Contract is one that we can utilize, if not, is there an IPHEC contract that would provide this type service? I tried to research the existing IPHEC vendors.
Thank You
MARIA THOMPSON
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Hi, Maria
The awarded contracts on the flyer all appear to be expired per the Sourcewell website.
#031517-SIE for building technologies
#051017-SIE for EV supplies and equipment
#030817-SIE includes HVAC systems and mechanical
Which contract were you interested in using? We may have something already.
Also, IPHEC must adopt a consortia award first before a member can leverage it.
Thank you
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Graham,
I am not really sure. Morgan or Kevin can you advise on Graham’s question?
Thank You
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Hello Graham,
I’m the F&S-CP Project Manager for the U20029: IACT track and fleet building project. This is an automated and connected track for testing autonomous vehicles and anticipates having renewable energy production from wind turbines and PV panels on the large track site.
The question which launched this email chain was received from the track designers who became aware of the existence to programs such as Sourcewell when discussing the PV design with potential sub designers for that portion of the track design. I’m afraid I am not familiar enough with the three projects to know for sure but from the thumbnail descriptions perhaps the first one might be most similar to what is involved here, although this project would involve a large system covering both site elements producing renewable energy and only one building. Their questions were really if the UIUC had interacted with Sourcewell in the past, and if Sourcewell might be an avenue to explore further as part of their design work.
Would it be acceptable to share your contact information with the designers so that they could determine if your program could help provide some of the elements required for the IACT track and fleet building?
Thank you,
Kevin
Hi Andy and Fernando,
One of our key research partners for the Illinois Geothermal Coalition is Andy Stumpf (copied here). He has asked if there are soil borings info for the Chicago campus. Can you connect him with the right person?
“Hi Morgan, Do you have a contact at UIC who would have access to their geotech and soil boring records.. person similar to Beth. I have been asked to help out with the Solar Decathlon project because they are interested in adding geothermal to the design. They plan to design an educational design and innovation center that is on the UIC campus and would occupy the two parking lots at 1198 W Vernon Park PI Parking, Chicago, IL 60607. Soil boring/geotech information for nearby buildings could help the design. I am also mapping Cook County, so this information would also be useful for that project. Would also be interested to know if there are any major water lines in along Harrison Street or I-290. Maybe an opportunity to include wastewater heat recovery.”
Thanks!
Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
Thanks for the introduction. Nice to meet you Fernando. I am going to find out from the students who they are working with at UIC.
Best,
Andy
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Thanks, it may be Fernando (He is out of the office).
I can pull files related to the 2009 Geothermal wells, but it might help to have a specific question to circulate. IS this accurate: Does UIC have any records of Soil boring/geotech information from past geothermal well drilling?
Regarding water lines – best to assume every where on campus has some utilities under it. There is likely water on Harrison and Racine,
Andy Mitchell
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for getting back to me. Actually, it would be possible to get access to or copies of the soil borings for all projects on UIC campus, not just the geothermal projects. The Illinois State Geological Survey maintains a database of geological, engineering geology, and geophysical information for the entire state. Here is snapshot for part of the UIC campus with engineering test hole delineated by the red dots and labeled by the total depth of the drilling. The data can be accessed through the ISGS’ ILWATER map service https://go.illinois.edu/ilwater. Currently, only the owner, location, and soil boring logs are available for most of the engineering borings, but we plan in the near future to provide access to the engineering geology data entered from the reports and if allowed by the owner/client a pdf of the scanned documents. The boring locations were digitized from the maps included in the reports or coordinates surveyed and provided with the logs. As Morgan knows, I am working with Facilities & Services here to digitize all the soil borings on our campus and provide them through the ILWATER map service. This effort is being funded as a student project that received a grant from the UIUC Student Sustainability Committee. If you are interested in having the UIC data served in a similar manner, let’s talk some more about how this is being done at UIUC. For much of the data the ISGS on the UIC campus came from research survey geologists or UIUC CEE faculty were involved with on the campus and from consultants involved in the project. Beyond the Illinois Solar Decathlon design project, this data is being compiled for the ISGS project to map the surface and subsurface geology of Cook and DuPage counties. This mapping is being done to update work that was done in the 1940s or early. The data is used to develop the maps and models of the geology which we make available to the public. Below is one of the cross sections we made this year for west to east cross section along Roosevelt Road. We plan by 2028 to have a 3D model of the geology available for Cook County. The mapping project is being funded by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Best.
Andy
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Andy – this is exciting stuff and I’m confident we can share the records, once we locate them.
I’m out of the office most of next week, and Fernando is just back and will playing catch up.
When do you need this info by?
Andy Mitchell
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Hi Andy and Fernando,
Getting back to you about the geotech soil borings. I have shared with you the Box folder with the logs found so far. The logs in the files starting with “x” have been plotted and the information is available through the ISGS borings database https://go.illinois.edu/ilwater. The logs in the files starting with “g” have not been entered yet.
Best,
Andy
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Thanks for the nudge Andy.
I’ll connect with our manager Dave Taeyaerts about the best way to go about getting this.
When do you need the info by?
Andy Mitchell
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Hi Angie,
I’ve reviewed this form (actually, Tim filled it out while I was with him), and I agree this small solar installation at UIUC should qualify for the IRA Tax Credit. I understand that the next step is for you to review it, and then forward it to the Treasury Office for their review and processing.
Please let me and Tim know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Morgan,
Is this project actually a solar installation or just the interconnection?
From below:
“Project will connect existing 15kw solar panels to campus electrical grid.”
If this is not the purchase/construction of solar panels for original use, it is not property as described under Section 48:
equipment which uses solar energy to generate electricity, to heat or cool (or provide hot water for use in) a structure, or to provide solar process heat, except property used to generate energy for the purposes of heating a swimming pool,
I’m happy to set up a time to discuss if that helps.
Kimberly A. Maxwell, CPA
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Hi Tim and Rob,
I’d like your perspective on this question about the small solar at the Energy Farm. If you would like to discuss it, please let me know who to include in a call with the tax office.
Thank you,
Morgan
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Hi Morgan,
Happy to discuss this further to determine if this project can meet the requirements for the credit. Do we want to discuss internally first?
Best,
Tim
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the November 2023 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,202.9 Megawatt hours.
The November 2023 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.