| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.87 |
| Liaison | Troy Goodnough |
| Submission Date | Feb. 18, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Minnesota, Morris
PAE-5: Climate Plan
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Heidi
Eger STARS intern Office of Sustainability |
Does the institution have a plan to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief summary of the climate plan’s long-term goals:
Our three long term goals outlined in the plan were:
1. Pursue carbon neutrality by using a mix of renewable energy technologies.
2. Produce more energy than we consume.
Our plan goals are also embedded in an interactive spreadsheet that we developed with a private firm that shows us the predicted impacts of implementing various renewable energy projects, for example, adding a turbine, adding a biomass gasifier, adding a combined-heat-and-power capability to the gasifier plant, etc.
We are working to pursue these goals.
A brief summary of the climate plan’s short-term goals:
Some of our short term goals included in the plan were:
1. Erect two additional large-scale 1.65MW wind turbines.
2. Reduce our traditional fossil fuel usage 70% by gasifying
9,000 tons of locally sourced agriculture residues for
campus heating, cooling, and electricity.
Year the climate plan was formally adopted or approved:
The website URL where information about the climate plan is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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