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The University of Virginia (UVA) is currently building a ground-breaking energy plant at the Charlottesville campus designed to gather wasted heat and store it in subterranean wells until it is needed again.
Some news sources have placed the cost of the project at around $70 million, although the university has not confirmed that figure.
UVA Today, an online news site produced by the school's communications office, reported Aug. 7 that the plant under construction in the Fontaine Research Park will supply thermal energy to the new Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology.
Because 90 percent of UVA's fossil fuel consumption is used for heat, employing new and efficient technologies will help the venerable university reach its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030 and fossil fuel-free by 2050, the campus news outlet noted.
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