The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:

• Performing preliminary assessment for clean energy PPA
• Fact sheet using solar farm as basis to estimate land needs and costs of additional solar farm to meet iCAP goal
• Update on biomass boiler at energy farm
• Identifying opportunities to purseu implementation of ground source heat pump (GSHP) technology on campus.

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The EGEN SWATeam held another bi-weekly meeting. Topics covered include:

• Updating the EGEN objectives project page
• Reporting steam generation on-campus
• Plans for this semester

The eGen SWATeam submitted a recommendation to the iWG stating, "Incorporate a building design standard into the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Facilities Standards that requires all new buildings on-campus to include a rooftop solar array covering the majority of rooftop surface area."

See attached the SWATeam recommendation EGen005 Rooftop Solar Standards complete with comments from all the eGen SWATeam members.

The EGEN SWATeam held their first meeting for the Spring 2017 semester. Topics covered include:

• Review draft recommendations for 1) on-campus solar and 2) petascale offsets
• An update from Morgan Johnston on the Associate Director of Campus Sustainability position
• Updating iCAP portal project pages for EGEN objectives
• Clean Energy PPA
• Potential for future solar farm
• Asking for feedback from EGEN team members regarding recommendation proces

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The EGEN SWATeam held their fourth meeting for the Fall 2016 semester. Topics covered include:

• Guest presentation by Yu-Feng Forrest Lin to discuss his work on investigating campus geothermal properties
• View draft recommendation for Petascale offsets
• Review draft recommendation for on-campus solar

A contract is in place to perform a heat recovery chiller (HRC) study to identify potential location(s) for HRCs on campus, and to assess opportunities for one system to serve multiple buildings. Preliminary review and assessment is expected to begin October 2016.

Beginning Fall 2016, a team at the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS, a division of the prairie Research Institute) led by Illinois Professor Yu-Feng Forrest Lin is conducting a series of detailed observations of the geothermal profile on campus - including high-resolution temperature profiling and thermal analysis. The team will drill to 330 ft and install a geothermal loop and fiberoptic cables. Results will help determine the feasibility of implementing geothermal systems on campus by identifying costs and possible challenges.

Professor Lin has coordinated with faculty from the University of Wisconsin to incorporate lessons learned from their implementation of a geothermal exchange system at the nearby EPIC health care systems campus in Verona, WI.

Professor Lin's team began drilling on 9/19/16. Daily drilling progress is logged and can be found by clicking this link.