Below is an email exchange between Morgan White and Tony Spurlock:

Hi Ehab, Rob, and Tony,

I’ve put the Solar Farm 3.0 slide show from Dec. 9 into the attached report. I referenced the slides with thumbnail images, and we could take some out and increase the size of some, depending on what we prefer to do.

Tony, I would appreciate your assistance with filling in the UIC total contract costs.  I’ve included comments for each of the spaces where that info is needed.  Could you please also look at the other questions I commented.

Rob, there are two questions that I hope you can help answer. 

1. If we lease the land for the onsite solar option, can it still be "behind the meter"?
2. We currently conclude with this statement: “We feel that the hybrid option meets several goals as it has great savings potential, adds renewable energy to the regional MISO network, which supports our local provider Ameren, and directly increases the capacity of the network we use to purchase the balance between what we consume and what we produce at UIUC.”  Is a MISO project somewhere other than in Illinois going to support Ameren and increase the capacity of the network we use?

Thanks,

Morgan

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I added all of the UIC totals and attached the updated calculations.

I do not think the hybrid option benefits Ameren (we are not taking additional delivery and it appears the new array would be outside the Ameren territory).

Should we include a statement related to how this fits into our strategy?  Here is a thought to get the ball rolling.  “This hydrid option allows the University to continue its leadership in Sustainability by leveraging best practices and expanding its portfolio of renewable strategies that provide a more comprehensive approach to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.”  

Regards,

Tony

Attached is the retirement transaction confirmation from MRETS and the JV for the REC charge. 

In December of 2022 Aaryaman Patel, a Mechanical Engineering student, published a video for a competition through the International District Energy Association. The purpose of the video is to highlight energy systems within a University campus.

Below is the link to his video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLrt4X0EOGA

Below is an email from Andrew Stumpf regarding the CIF's Geothermal Exhange Borefield.

From: Stumpf, Andrew J <astumpf at illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: CEE190 Instructor meeting

Hi Eric,

Yes. The report is available on IDEALS https://hdl.handle.net/2142/111796, so publicly available. Correct, John has been doing further study on the CIF building. He has been working with me on the research… his PhD exam is next Monday, so pretty busy. I’ve only had a brief tour of the mechanicals when it was first built, so I can’t really comment about the system inside. Dr. Tugce Baser in CEE tbaser at illinois.edu I believe received a more detailed tour, so you might want to reach out to her. Here is some information about the mechanicals published for an ASHRAE award the building received.

Best,

Andy

Greg Landess shared an article on Vertical Solar PV's with members from F&S.

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the September 2022 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 1333.9 Megawatt hours.

The Septmeber 2022 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

Attached is a pdf and excel file looking at the costs and solution comparisons for Solar Farm 3.0.

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the August 2022 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 935.6 Megawatt hours.

The August 2022 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.