Higher Ed Dive
Summary
In April, Dartmouth College announced an eye-catching figure to make its campus more sustainable, an investment amounting to half a billion dollars.
How the Ivy League university plans to actually lessen its impact on the planet is considerably less eye-catching. In fact, few around campus might have a chance to physically see the changes.
That’s because much of the spending will go into an overhaul of the campus’s facility heating infrastructure, moving it from a steam-based to a hot-water system.
The distributed nature of the system also doesn’t require centralized heating infrastructure. Instead, the college can use a variety of heating methods, such as electric heat pumps and solar powered heat pumps. It can even use water heated up in the New England summers and stored underground until winter, when it’s needed. All that allows for multiple approaches on energy.
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