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1 Introduction page: Cover Who you are, Where you are from

2 American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment
I signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment on behalf of faculty, staff, and students. I invite all of the UCCS community to get involved in helping the campus to reduce its carbon footprint, model sustainable practices for our students, and provide curriculum that facilitates the leadership needed to address this era’s significant challenges. Pam Shockley Zalabak Chancellor, University of Colorado Colorado Springs The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a high-visibility effort to address global climate disruption undertaken by a network of colleges and universities that have made institutional commitments to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from specified campus operations, and to promote the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. Its mission is to accelerate progress towards climate neutrality and sustainability by empowering the higher education sector to educate students, create solutions, and provide leadership-by-example for the rest of society. 684 signatories to date of chancellors and presidents from community colleges, universities, small liberal arts colleges, etc. American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment

3 UCCS Carbon Footprint 2015 With this slide it is important to utilize approx. information about 50% of ghg is from electricity and about 12% is from natural gas usage. Together these two sources make up nearly 2/3 of our ghg emissions. Full GHG emissions have been omitted however they compose approx. 34,000 mtCO2.

4 Sustainability Strategic Plan 2012-2020
Goal: Achieve Progress toward a Net Zero Energy Campus through Conservation, Energy Efficiency Technologies, and Producing or Purchasing Renewable Energy Action: Increase on-campus and purchased renewable energy projects to 30% of total energy use Action: Increase the quantity and scope of energy efficiency and retrofit projects Action: Implement behavioral energy conservation measures

5 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 50% in 2030 80% in 2050 100% in 2099 Climate Commitment: We are committed to carbon reductions as such: 20% by 2020 50% by 2030 80% by 2050 100% by 2099 This commitment focuses on reduction of carbon emissions as a percent of 2006 levels. SEE ALSO: State of Colorado Governor’s Greening of State Government Executive Orders

6 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 This graph shows that if we’d followed the Business-As-Usual approach our emissions would’ve drastically increased by 2020.

7 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 Greening of the Grid program reduces our Emissions by 3%

8 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 Currently our carbon emissions is composed of 50% from our electricity. This energy usage primarily comes from campus lighting. The other large components consist of about 11% from natural gas usage from heating. About a quarter of our carbon emissions come from commuting to campus. The first 3% of our carbon emissions are established from working with Colorado Springs Utilities to gain access to more green energy options. An additional 3% will come from Higher Efficiency buildings. This focuses on future construction and our effort to meet LEED and the Governors green initiatives. 7% of our reduction will come from behavioral changes. This focuses on individual awareness of energy usage. This will including steps like turning off lights in classrooms and offices when not in use. Approx. 30% of carbon reduction will be from facility retrofits. This will focus on high energy usage and antiquated systems. Through upgrades to existing systems and buildings we can save a great deal of energy usage. This will have an impact on our overall carbon emissions. 57% our carbon emission reduction will focus on increasing our production and usage of renewable energy.

9 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 Behavior changes will bring about 7% reduction of carbon footprint

10 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 (Energy Retrofits) With about 30% in reduction Energy Efficiency Projects represent the second largest part of emissions reduction strategies and has the potential to provide significant cost savings over the long term.

11 UCCS Climate Commitment
Reduce ghg emissions by: 20% in 2020 Another 57% reduction will come from Renewable Energy such as our 68-panel solar thermal system installed in The system provides approximately 2/3 of the energy needed to heat the pool and roughly 7% of the total building energy use. And other systems on campus

12 UCCS Climate Commitment: How Are We Doing?

13 Smart Energy Pyramid In this initial presentation of the smart energy pyramid focus on all three components. This pyramid focuses on the individuals impact with the largest segment being conservation. While Renewables and Efficiency play a larger role in our goals the individual approach shows what members of the campus community can do to help out. Individual conservation efficacy is additionally instrumental in attaining efficiency and renewables.

14 Renewable Energy: Solar Thermal
Recreation Center Solar Thermal system provides most of the energy required to heat the pool, spa, and showers. The Solar Thermal System on the Rec. Center. This system utilizes solar energy to heat the pool water in the Rec Center. Overall this system heats about 2/3 of the water. In doing so this system offsets natural gas usage. Note: This system has shown additional capacity to heat both the pool and at peak efficiency some of the showers in the building.

15 Renewable Energy: Offsite Solar Gardens
SunShare and Clean Energy Collective’s solar gardens provide approximately 39% of the energy for Engineering and Columbine Hall. Total of 1,450,838 KWH in FY2016 Courtesy of The Gazette

16 Renewable Energy: Solar Photovoltaic
Alpine Garage Field Osborne Center Centennial Hall Currently we have installed two photovoltaic systems on the campus through student initiatives and support from the Governors Green Buildings fund. The system currently installed on Centennial Hall is a 25kW system while the Osborne Center has a 13.6kW system. Thin Laminate System (This system was one of the first of its kind) New bio laminate systems are in the works showing systems that are nearly 38% efficient. These systems produce about 3% of these buildings energy needs. With a cost avoidance of about $3,000 a year. 13 kW thin-film laminate system 25 kW panel system 42 kW panel system

17 Renewable Energy Certificates
UCCS bought 15,188,000 KWH of Renewable Energy This is the equivalent of: Growing 276,624 trees per year for ten years. Taking 2,255 cars off the road for 1 year Effective as of August 1, Approximately 62% of total electricity used in FY2016. Not using 24,712 barrels of oil

18 Smart Living Pyramid Introduction overview of the energy pyramid: Renewables, Efficiency, Conservation. Focus on Energy Efficiency-i.e. LEED Buildings.

19 Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Recreation Center Osborne Center Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings. The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building. Additional Notes: LEED Buildings: Energy efficiency helps to curb energy usage and carbon emissions. These buildings on our campus use around 30-34% less energy over traditional buildings. This is due to a number of technologies being incorporated, architectural components, and smart building practices. When the centennial was systems were upgraded to meet LEED standard we saw a decrease of 8% energy use. Gallogly Events Center Centennial Hall

20 Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Copper House Eldora House Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings. The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building. Lane Center AOB

21 Energy Efficiency: Leed Gold Buildings
Cucharas La Plata Our LEED Gold buildings are designed to reduce energy use by over 30% from traditional buildings. The Centennial building renovation is showing an 8% reduction in electricity, despite more equipment and technology and better air quality. This amounts to a potential $2500 in saving per month on the building. Additional Notes: LEED Buildings: Energy efficiency helps to curb energy usage and carbon emissions. These buildings on our campus use around 30-34% less energy over traditional buildings. This is due to a number of technologies being incorporated, architectural components, and smart building practices. When the centennial was systems were upgraded to meet LEED standard we saw a decrease of 8% energy use. San Juan Roaring Fork

22 Energy Efficiency: Lighting
Daylight Sensors Efficient Lighting “De-Lamping” Motion Sensors Discuss some of the efforts that we have taken including lighting sensors, LED in the parking lots, uccs reduction in energy utilized around lighting. Also Delamping. Additional focus on campus has been from de-lamping and replace old bulbs with higher efficiency bulbs. These bulbs on average reduce approx % of the energy use over older technologies. LED’s

23 Energy Efficiency: HVAC
Heat Recovery Unit VAV Fume Hoods HRU: SENG and Centennial Hall Improved higher efficiency systems have been installed on a number of buildings in effort to reduce our energy use and carbon footprint. Additional Notes if a question comes up: Other Systems which have been incorporated include: Heat Recovery Units: These units prevent loss of energy through a coil energy recovery system. When buildings are evacuated/exhaust passes over Coils in the heat recovery system. The energy exchanges from the air to the coils if hot and if cold absorbs the energy from the coils. (See. Law of Thermodynamics). When air from outside the building is brought into the system it passes over the coils allowing the transfer of energy from the coils to the air. Either Heating the air or removing energy from the air thereby cooling it.) Variable Air Volume: This system regulates the airflow in a building more efficiently than a traditional furnace or cooling system. This type of system takes into account air flow, temperature and humidity in producing an optimal comfort level. The engine for the system can operate a multiple levels and is not always on like a traditional systems. Given this systems focus on comfort rather than hot/cold it has added capacity for energy efficiency. VAV Air Handlers High-Efficiency Boilers

24 Water Efficiency: Dual-Flush Toilets
Plumbing efficiency: Low flow toilets with dual flow control. This can regulate the amount of water used in relations to need. These higher efficiency systems are important in curbing our water usage. Which is realized in cost avoidance given the increasing cost of water. Recently due to the Southern Delivery System which brings water from the Arkansas River to Colorado Springs is increasing water cost by 12%.

25 Water Efficiency: High-Efficiency Urinals
Water costs will increase 12% per year for the next several years to fund the Southern Delivery System (SDS) and other projects.

26 University Utility Costs

27 Energy Costs Avoided Over $4M in energy costs avoided to date!

28 Smart Living Pyramid

29 Goals Identify opportunities to improve building occupant comfort and provide a better work environment for employees, Reduce measurable energy use and GHG emissions from user conservation behavior, Inventory office energy use to establish benchmarks for reduction goals and identify opportunities for energy efficiency initiatives and cost savings, Educate and engage the campus community about how they can reduce their carbon footprint and become more sustainable in their work environment.

30 Individual survey results are confidential!
Process Individual survey results are confidential! 90-100% 80-89% 70-79% 60-69%

31 is about you! Departments/Offices surveyed so far: Facilities Services
GES Financial Aid Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Chancellor’s Office University Advancement Student Recruitment Residence Life Kraemer Family Library EH&S

32 is about you! Have a Question, Comment, or Concern?
See a sustainability issue around campus?

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