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Dartmouth College Begins Testing on Four Geothermal Wells in Effort to Cut Fossil Fuel Emissions

The Dartmouth Summary In an effort to meet College President Phil Hanlon’s 2017 goal of reducing campus-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2025 last month, the College began testing four locations for potential geothermal wells. The drilling team has already tested two geothermal wells ...

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Dartmouth College explores geothermal energy

Valley News Summary Dartmouth College will begin drilling test wells on Tuesday in an expanded search for geothermal energy. After digging 13 wells in 2007, Dartmouth was able to introduce geothermal, also known as geoexchange, heating and cooling in two residence halls. That system...

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Heating System Upgrades Draw Interest

Dartmouth Summary Dartmouth’s progress in upgrading its campus heating system is drawing interest from other New England schools looking to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. Officials from University of Massachusetts Amherst, Williams College, and Mount Holyoke toured campus on...

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Dartmouth College formally announces plan to divest from fossil fuels

The Dartmouth Summary The College’s endowment will no longer be directly invested in fossil fuels and the Dartmouth Investment Office intends to allow its remaining public holdings in the sector to expire, according to an Oct. 8 announcement. Although this release marks the College’s first...

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Building for the Future: The Sustainable Framework of Dartmouth’s Campus Construction

The Dartmouth Summary Despite the COVID-19 pandemic putting much of campus life on hold, from in-person classes to Ivy League sports, one aspect of the College’s campus operations has been moving full-steam ahead even amidst the pandemic: construction. Two new buildings will soon ...

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Dartmouth College Will Not Move Forward With Biomass Plant

NHPR Summary Dartmouth College has announced that it will not move forward with a plan to replace its current heating plant with one fueled by wood chips. The college is looking at implementing a number of different renewable energy sources instead. One of Dartmouth’s energy goals for...

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DOE Announces Winners of Solar District Cup

Electrical Wholesaling Summary On April 27, the Department of Energy announced the winners of its Solar District Cup, a competition that challenges teams of college students to design innovative, cost-efficient distributed energy systems for a district, a group of buildings with a common...

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Steele Hall - Energy Retrofit Project

Summary A 2018 HVAC renewal project at Steele Hall incorporated energy retrofit measures including heat recovery chillers installation and heating system conversion from steam to low temperature hot water. Using energy recovered from the campus chilled water network, the chillers generate hot...

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College conducts tests for applicability of new geoexchange system

Andrew Sasser, The Dartmouth Summary As students walk across the Green over the next few days, they may notice another fenced-off, ongoing campus project. Earlier this week, the College commenced drilling wells on the Green to learn more about the viability of a geoexchange system at the...

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Dartmouth College Reconsiders Biomass Plant

Daniela Allee, New Hampshire Public Radio Summary Dartmouth College says it’s reassessing its plan to build a wood burning heating plant that would replace its current oil-burning plant. The biomass plant was one piece of a $200 million project that is part of Dartmouth's plan to reduce...