Sustainability Council meeting June 15, 2020
This presentation includes a review of the draft iCAP 2020 objectives.
This presentation includes a review of the draft iCAP 2020 objectives.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the May 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 1892.7 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
Mohamed Attalla and Evan DeLucia approved $17,000 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for an Energy Advisor for Solar Farm 3.0, Customer First Renewables.
An email of the approval is attached below.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,418.2 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
While procurement laws still restrict the majority of campus purchasing contracts to ten years, there is a state of Illinois law that allows our campus to enter into Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) that are as long as 25 years. See http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=101-0193 for details.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the March 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,524.6 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
VIRTUAL POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT RULED LEGAL
F&S and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment hired attorney Paul Durbin to evaluate the legality for the campus to enter into a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) to meet the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) goals for purchasing renewable energy. The analysis concluded that the Board of Trustees has the legal authority to enter into a VPPA, if it is financially reasonable; said agreement would be performed by Prairieland Energy, Inc. (PEI), a subsidiary wholly-owned by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
F&S completed the renewal of our recognition as a Green Power Partner through the US Environmental Protection Agency. Green Power Partners of our scale now have to use renewable power for seven percent of their annual consumption, an increase from the previous requirement of three percent. Fortunately, the FY19 green power supply for FY19 was 7.28%. See attached file.
Overview submitted: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is proud of its sustainability initiatives, as documented in the Illinois Climate Action Plan. The first project was a 32.76 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array on the Business Instructional Facility in 2009. The 14.7 kW PV array, ground mounted at the Building Research Council, is a research platform for the Information Trust Institute. The most significant on-campus renewable energy generation project to date went into operation in December 2015, with the completion of the 5.87 megawatt (MW) Solar Farm, producing approximately 7,200 MWh/year. In December 2015 another solar array was installed on the new Wassaja Residence Hall roof with a capacity of 33 kW. In September 2016, campus signed a ten-year Wind Power Purchase Agreement for 25 million kWh/year. Most recently, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Building had 970 rooftop panels installed. Since production began in April 2019, 11% of all power supplied to the ECE Building has been from the rooftop panels, not including the panels that are used for student-oriented research. The University will soon be home to Solar Farm 2.0, which is projected to produce 20,000 MWh/year, nearly tripling on-site production.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the February 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,239.6 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the January 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,131.5 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the December 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,802.0 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the November 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,182.3 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
See attached for the iWG Meeting Minutes from 11/22/2019.
Agenda includes: iCAP 2020 timeline, Clean Energy planning, and Zero Waste planning
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the October 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,329.1 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the September 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 1,490.2 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the August 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 909.3 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the July 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 992.8 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the June 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 1,657.8 Megawatt hours. See attached file.
RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the May 2019 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,052.7 Megawatt hours. See attached file.