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By Tom Oswald MSU’s new energy transition plan will guide the university toward a greener future with 100 percent renewable energy as the ultimate goal. On April 13, 2012, MSU took a giant step toward the future, a future in which the university powers itself with 100 percent renewable energy. It was on that day that the MSU Board of Trustees officially adopted the university’s Energy Transition Plan, a document that will not only set energy-use standards for the future, but will guide all of MSU’s future energy decisions. By design, the plan sets high-level goals and recommends strategies that will meet the energy needs of the campus, reduce carbon emissions, and implement renewable energy infrastructure. This will be a universitywide effort with far-reaching benefits to improve the world for many generations. The plan utilizes research from MSU faculty, students and staff, as well as outside experts, and addresses critical variables—reliability, cost, health, environment and capacity—that impact MSU’s many stakeholders in the local community, across the state, and throughout the world. More than a year in the making, the plan was created by the Energy Transition Steering Committee, a 24-member group of students, faculty and staff whose charge was to develop a plan to help MSU reliably meet its future energy needs while keeping a close eye on costs and environmental impacts. Among the committee’s members were those who have made it no secret that they are opposed to MSU’s burning of coal in the power plant. Fred Poston, vice president for finance and operation, said the goal all along was to collect a variety of opinions. “Given the strong views held by many of the committee members, I would have been surprised to receive unanimous support of the resulting compromise plan,” Poston says. “There was, however, strong overall support to move the plan forward.” The plan has three specific goals: Improve the physical environment of the campus. That means the pursuit of aggressive, sustainable energy conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the re-investment of energy savings for future renewable technologies. Invest in sustainable energy research and development. The university will strive to promote sustainable energy research by using the campus as a living, learning laboratory for developing, evaluating and demonstrating new technologies. Become an educational leader in sustainable energy. MSU will apply its knowledge to improve the quality of life for local, regional and national communities. The university will share what it learns through its energy-transition process. 34 | Summer 2012 | alumni.msu.edu
Energy use on campus is monitored in the control room of MSU’s power plant. MSU has taken a leadership role in higher education with its energy transition plan. MSU Alumni Magazine | 35
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