Greenfield Recorder
Summary
On Earth Day in 2022, University of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy announced an ambitious to goal to make the Amherst campus net-zero for carbon emissions, prioritizing sustainability throughout all of its operations.
A year after unveiling the UMass Carbon Zero initiative, campus leaders ceremonially broke ground on the $125 million Sustainable Engineering Laboratories project, a 78,000-square-foot building that will not only meet a net zero goal of being powered through renewable energy, but will also be a site for innovative research aimed at confronting the global climate crisis and promoting a clean energy future.
Specifically, the new building will include test beds for efficient and equitable methodologies to generate, distribute, use and store energy; a smart microgrid to couple new renewable energy generation and storage technologies to real-life use; and an energy operations center that integrates data from the campus and the surrounding region, a sort of living lab to study and implement sustainable solutions.
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