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This session will demonstrate how to adapt a large existing campus to decarbonized central systems, including cost considerations, performance evaluation, resilience concerns, and equity factors. To achieve the University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) climate goals, we developed a clean energy master plan that goes beyond a conventional utility plan to prioritize equity and environmental justice to sustain campus ecosystems and ensure student wellbeing. Implementing decarbonization plans can be disruptive, but we'll share how you can achieve successful buy-in and engagement, including uplifting students as interns on the project team and key contributors in the process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate a data-informed decarbonization journey, starting with a phased electrification plan that addresses evaluation metrics such as lifecycle costs, energy, carbon emissions, student wellbeing, and energy resilience.
2. Identify decarbonization opportunities specific to your campus that you can leverage for energy optimization, carbon emissions, cost reduction, wellbeing, and climate resiliency.
3. Apply tools for stakeholder engagement throughout planning and delivery of campus electrification for continuous alignment and buy-in that results in a healthier campus.
4. Discuss how to create learning, research, and fundraising opportunities through campus and all-electric thermal plant-based living labs.

Presenters:

Maya Ades, Student, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Jordan Sager, Associate Director- Energy and Engineering, UCSB Design, Facilities, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sonam Shah, Associate Principal, Introba

Delivered 04/03/2025.

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