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Solar Energy at Gustavus
Review of projects underway
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Johnson Center for Environmental Innovation
Focal point for campus environmental initiativesSustainabilityAmerican College and University Presidents’ Climate CommitmentEnergy conservation and renewable energy
Collaboration across the campusEnvironmental Studies ProgramPhysics DepartmentPhysical Plant Director, Warren Wunderlich
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Background
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/143824846.html
Twelve year effort to acquire a utility scale wind turbineCarbon reduction and economic benefitBlocked by county action in 2012$1 million dollar donorPresident asked donor to shift funds to solar projectPart of LEED certification effort on new academic building (Beck Hall)
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Beck Hall
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/143824846.html
New (2011) academic classroom and office buildingTargeting LEED PlatinumEcon and Management, Communication Studies, Psychology, Neuroscience, History, Sociology, and Antrhopology
LEED on-site renewable energy60 flat plate solar thermal collectors40 KW solar electric
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Exploratory specification process
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Overview of all projectsBeck Hall
60 flat plate solar thermal collectorsSummer reheat and winter heating load
40 KW solar electric (in process)Olin Hall (Math and Physics)
Three 5 KW arrays (5 KW installed to date)TenK, microinverters, central inverter
Lund athletic complex24 flat plate collectorsYear round load—pool and water heating
Jackson Campus CenterSixteen Next Generation NGU-TU panelsBallast mountsYear round water heating load
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Olin Hall
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Jackson Campus Center
True south orientation
Fin tube radiator heat dump
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Jackson Campus Center
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Lund Athletic CenterCollector orientation about 30 degrees west of south
Priority to pool load
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Performance data
Jackson 20 days
4.98 therms/day production
6.22 therms/day displaced
Lund 9 days
DHW 4.11 therms/day
Pool 3.99 therms/day
Total 8.10 therms/day
Total displaced 10 therms/day