Michigan's Power Play:
How can campus buildings be leveraged for carbon neutrality?
The University of Michigan (U-M) has established ambitious climate goals, aiming to achieve carbon neutrality across its three campuses. As the University grows, can it cut costs and reduce emissions by scaling up demand response programs across campus buildings?
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U-M's physical footprint is expanding, with the Ann Arbor campus alone experiencing a growth of roughly 6.5 million gross square feet over the past decade. At the same time, U-M aims to fully eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from on-campus sources by 2040. The university's commitment to carbon neutrality has caused a surge in interest among students, research teams, and facilities managers surrounding on-campus energy use patterns.
As an analyst at the Office of Campus Sustainability specializing in building energy use analysis, you have the power to inform university officials in critical decisions with implications for whether carbon neutrality is achieved on time and on budget. In this module, you will leverage U-M's rich building energy use data to explore the potential of demand response programs as a scalable campus decarbonization strategy. You will draw on previous demand response studies conducted across 12 U-M campus buildings to inform your analysis, assess costs, benefits, and trade-offs, and make your case for scaling up demand response in the context of the University's overall sustainability goals.
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