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The last time the power house at UC Berkeley furnished electricity to the campus over 90 years ago it was boiling oil and spewing exhaust from a smokestack atop the brick barn just uphill from Sather Gate.
But the next time the power house furnishes electricity to the campus it will be boiling water to supply clean energy, as the entire campus — more than 100 buildings — goes green in an attempt to reduce its carbon footprint by 80%.
The clean-energy campus, expected to be the first in the UC system, will cost $700 million by the time the transformation concludes in 2030. When it does, the existing natural-gas powered plant that lights and heats the campus from a building next to Haas Pavilion will be decommissioned, putting an end to the familiar white steam that periodically rises through grates across campus, as if it sits on a geyser.
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