A document containing the notes from this interview is attached below.

Summary of the Clean Energy Transition Plan Interview:

Bill Rose - iCAP Energy Team Co-Chair

Andrew Stumpf - iCAP Energy Team Co-Chair

On 2/25/22, the team met with Bill Rose and Andrew Stumpf. As we are still in the stage of initial research and this was the first interview of this project, we were hoping to learn about their experience as Energy iCAP leaders as well as their recommendations. From this interview, we gained a lot of important information about their beliefs surrounding a clean energy transition as well as what they believe to be the biggest challenges. Overall, Bill Rose places a lot of emphasis on conservation and demand side improvements. Andrew also sees the importance of conservation but focuses on generation and supply side improvements. He places importance on a diverse portfolio of energy generation, including the use of geothermal for steam generation. They also provided us with peer institutions to investigate including Stanford and Ball State. Additionally, they provided us with potential people to interview including Meredith Moore, John Zhao (geothermal), a couple committees on campus and another senior design group that Andrew is working with. This was a very beneficial meeting to see the bigger picture and everything that must go into this plan. A recommendation from Bill was to potentially narrow the scope of our project as there are a lot of components that go into a clean energy transition plan. He is worried it may be difficult for us to cover everything.

On Feb 17 and 24, Sarthak and Sutapa met to discuss the scoring system of the General Walkability audit. 

We prepared a comparative list of 2 scoring systems (0-5 scale scores and negative to 5 scale scores). The Transportation dept. group meeting on 24th February has an agenda to finalise our scoring system after discussion.

We have also prepared a spreadsheet with all the results of the survey and formatted it in a way that has questions on each row and one survey per column of the audit. Instead of prioritizing our larger categories of parameters, we decided to assign priorities to each question as High, Medium and Low with weights of x3, x2 and x1 respectively.

Map blocks 9, 10, 14, 22, 23 and 27 have no records yet. Part 2 of Data collection for the same will start in the last week of March when the weather gets pleasant to walk around. A call for volunteers has been made in the SPO meeting on February 23rd, 2022.

Results of Transportation group meeting on 24th February:

1. Scoring system was discussed and finalized

• Questions are categorized into High, Medium and Low categories. A few questions are marked as Bonus questions with Low priority.
• 0-5 scoring scale was chosen to represent the options. Negative points were discontinued.
• Total addition of weighted scores at this stage was 65 points.

2. Mass email to be sent out again to MUP students as a 'Call for Volunteers' next week.

3. Chad and Justin to colour code the categories of the Deficiency reporting surveys in the coming weeks.

This project was previously named "Campus Race to Zero Waste 2021."

F&S compiled this list of meters that track irrigation usage (which is attached below).

Note this is not a complete record of irrigation watering on campus.

The Zero Waste team met on Monday, February 21 to draft a recommendation on reducing single-use plastics on campus--particularly in vending machines. This recommendation, along with the other teams drafted by the team last semester, will be presented at an upcoming Sustainability Sub-council.

Can Bayram has been awarded an ARPA-E OPEN grant to support the development of green LED lights that will generate the same level of brightness as today’s blue LED lamps, but with significantly less energy consumption and carbon emissions.