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UCSD to lower its SDG&E bills, energize renewable resource plan: reducing greenhouse gas emissions primary goal of school's green initiative.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As part of its effort to promote renewable energy, UC San Diego will gradually reduce the amount of electricity it purchases from San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and replace it with "green" power produced from fuel cells and solar sources on campus.

The university currently buys about 15 percent of its energy from SDG&E for 13 cents per kilowatt hour. The rest of the power comes from the cogeneration plant that houses a pair of jet engines that run on natural gas.

Within the next year and a half, the university plans to generate 7.4 megawatts from renewable energy sources--3 megawatts of off-peak electricity purchased from Southern California wind farms; 2.4 megawatts from a pair of large fuel cells that run on methane gas recaptured from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant; and 2 megawatts from photovoltaic solar...

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