The Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois approved the purchase plans for the Solar Farm on Thursday.  The next steps are to complete the Development Agreement, Land-Lease Agreement, and Power Purchase Agreement.  Once these are completed, the Solar Farm vendor will begin the design and implementation of the Solar Farm at the southwest corner of Windsor Road and First Street.  The entire site should be completed and operational by the end of 2013.

The Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois approved the Solar Farm purchase.

Jeff Bossert at WILL Public Radio interviewed Morgan Johnston about the Solar Farm.  The interview was recorded and will be on the radio.

The News-Gazette published a follow-up article about the Solar Farm site selection.  The article is online.

The News-Gazette contacted SSC members and F&S to get an overview of the Solar Farm project as discussed at the BOT Audit, Budget, Finance, and Facilities sub-committee meeting.  The article is online.

It was also picked up by the Chicago Tribune, Danville Area Connect, I4U, as well.

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 221 T-12 fixtures in the Atmospheric Sciences Building were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 34,365 hours. The simple payback for this project is 3.83 years.

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 367 T-12 fixtures in the Meat Sciences Laboratory were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 66,103 hours. The simple payback for this project is 2.91 years.

The Student Sustainability Committee met with F&S and exchanged letters and draft letters before finalizing the funding approval for the Solar Farm.  Some of the related files are attached here.

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 256 T-12 fixtures in the Horticulture Field Lab were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 40,187 hours. The simple payback for this project is 3.58 years.

Due to the Board of Trustees meeting schedule, the SSC has agreed to do a straw-poll about the funding of the Solar Farm project at their upcoming meeting on Oct. 26, 2012.  They requested a full proposal be submitted this week, for review by committee members this coming week.  The submitted proposal and associated calculations are attached here.

On October 23, as part of the 2012 Sustainability Week, Champaign County Bikes and the University of Illinois will offer a FREE Cycling Savvy Course. 

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

6:30-9:30pm

ARC Auditorium

See attached flyer for additional details.

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 687 T-12 fixtures in the Admin Tech Info Building were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 112,316 hours. The simple payback for this project is 3.42 years.

Marcus Ricci, Stephanie Lage, Brian Deal, and Morgan Johnston met to review the status of this report. Marcus has collected a lot of data about how waste is handled on campus, and he has started to draft a summary.

As part of the Lighting Retrofit #5, 1,250 T-12 fixtures in the Art and Design Building were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 202,172 hours. The simple payback for this project is 3.47 years.

see file

This file shows each building that has been Retrocomissioned since the program began.  It includes the dates of the RCx effort, the energy reduction and related cost avoidance in utility costs.

In February 2012, The Bike Project submitted a funding request to SSC for $39,872.  In March 2012, the SSC approved this funding. 

During summer 2012, the University and The Bike Project revised their Facility Use Agreement to clarify their collaborative working relationship.  The SSC sent a clarification letter regarding this update and subsequently completed a revised award letter.

From: Hanson, Claudine
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:10 AM
To: Johnston, Morgan B; Beverage, McKenzie
Cc: Jones, John D
Subject: RE: RSO Weatherization Payments

Here you go.

The full CFOAP for deposits into an RSO fund is  1-90xxxx-389005-307900-199000

The fund numbers are as follows:

Hong Kong Student Association     901645

Chinese Undergraduate Student Association    902108

Horticulture Club     901887

Students for Environmental Concerns   901758

American Society of Civil Engineers   901270

Let me know if you have questions.

Claudine