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Team 12

Team Members

Faculty Advisor

Keily Perla
Tasbita Ahmed
Sara Bruko

Professor Willis

Sponsor

University of Connecticut

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UConn's Green Energy Transition

UConn wants to reach carbon neutrality by 2030 to properly address and combat the university’s current release of over 100,000 tons of carbon emissions a year. Carbon neutrality is achieved by removing the same amount of carbon from the atmosphere that is released. To accomplish this, carbon emissions must be offset by the use of clean energy sources. The team will create a plan for how the campus can use renewable energy to reach this goal and evaluate if there is enough land and local resources to support a possible solution. The team will also create an energy balance to properly account for UConn’s needs (commodities that include electricity and heat). The team would like to combine a solar panel field, wind turbines, hydrogen fuel cells, and an anaerobic digester to provide a sufficient amount of energy to campus. In addition, the group will propose conservation policies by which students, faculty, and the surrounding community can all help their campus reach carbon neutrality.