2017 UC SOLAR

RESEARCH

SYMPOSIUM California Public Utilities Commission

Auditorium

Friday, October 13th 2017

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The University of California

• 10 campuses

• 5 medical centers

• 3 national laboratories

• 150 academic disciplines

• 600 graduate degree programs

• 238,700 students

• 198,300 employees

• 1.7 million living alumni

• 61 Nobel laureates

• 20,000 UC extension courses

• 430,000 jobs supported

• $46.3 billion contributed to California economy

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UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative

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Professor Charles

David Keeling

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Professors

Sherwood Rowland

and Mario Molina

First UC Climate Policy • Reduce GHG emissions to the year 1990 levels

by 2020.

• Develop an action plan for becoming climate

neutral as soon as possible.

UC Climate Research UC’s Climate Commitments

2007 American College & University

Presidents Climate Commitment

UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative "this is a steep mountain, and we have to figure out

how to reach the top. But we are the University of

California. And there is no reason that UC can’t lead

the world in this quest, as it has in so many

others…The good news is that research universities

like UC are in the business of breaking through

barriers. That's why we call them breakthroughs. It is

the essence of what research universities do.“

- President Napolitano

2013

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The University of California

• 300,000 MT CO2 from electricity supply

• 700,000 MT CO2 from natural gas combustion

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Systemwide Emissions and Goal

Assessing the Challenge

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Where does CO2 Come From?

Challenge: Avoid burning natural gas and other hydrocarbons

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= Smart Growth

How Do We Become Carbon Neutral?

= Energy efficiency + conservation

= On-site renewable energy

= Utility-scale clean electricity

= Biomethane

= Cap and trade compliance offsets

= Off-campus carbon reduction actions

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Simply Stated

• Energy Efficiency

• On-campus Renewable Electricity

• Off-campus Clean Electricity

• On-campus Combustion

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On-campus Renewable Energy

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University of California – solar supply

On-campus

• As part of the UC system’s efforts to reduce its system-

wide carbon footprint, each UC campus has installed on-

site renewable generation

• System-wide, the campuses are home to more than 36 MW of solar

power systems that produce more than 52 million kWh of

renewable electricity

• More are planned as economics and site availability dictate

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UC Davis on campus solar project

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UC Irvine on campus solar project

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University of California – solar supply Off-campus

• UC entered in to two agreement for the long-term supply of wholesale renewable energy • Agreements executed 2014

• Five Points Solar Park • 60 MW

• Fresno County

• Commercial operation – fall 2016

• Giffen Solar Park • 20 MW

• Fresno County

• Commercial operation – summer 2017

• Total expected production over 200,000 MWh per year

• About 1 mi square of panels between both projects

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Five Points Solar Park

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Giffen Solar Park

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Digging deeper

• Reduced on site combustion of natural gas • Electrification,

solar thermal

• Central plant research

• Is more solar energy marking California cleaner?

• Coincidence of supply and usage

• California centric supply

• Storage scalable?

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