UI Energy Plan
UI Energy Conservation and Management Plan (released Feb. 2007)
UI Energy Challenge
(update to the 2007 UI Energy Plan)
Among the UI's current Energy Plan’s ambitious goals are a 10 percent energy reduction and 15 percent overall renewable energy usage by 2013. UI President Sally Mason, in an Earth Day, April 22, 2008 announcement, recommended moving the UI Energy Plan targets up to 2010 instead of 2013. The original goals of the Energy Plan appear below. To read the entire speech by President Mason, go to:
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/april/042208mason-sustainability.html
(02/07)
Ten Percent Energy Reduction by 2013 (new target date: 2010
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To offset future rising energy costs, the UI has set the goal of reducing energy consumption, over a Fiscal Year 2003 baseline, by 10%. The University of Iowa will reduce energy consumption by an average of 10% per square foot per degree-day by July 1, 2013 for the aggregate of all major, owned, conditioned buildings built prior to 2003.
Fifteen percent Renewable Energy by 2013 (new target date: 2010)
To maintain its national leadership in the use of alternative and sustainable energy, by July 1, 2013, 15% of all energy consumed by the UI campus will be produced from renewable sources. Renewable energy sources include solar, wind, waste management, resource recovery, refuse- derived fuel, biomass, wood burning, small hydro, and other carbon neutral sources.