PG&E Rebates Help UC Berkeley Tackle Major Energy-Saving Projects
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Helped by $800,000 in rebates from Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), the University of California, Berkeley, is retrofitting five ventilation systems at a dozen campus buildings. The project, which is slated for completion by December 2008, will save 3 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), or 1.5% of the campus' electricity consumption. The ventilation system project follows lighting retrofit and cogeneration projects, funded, in part, by over $300,000 in rebates from PG&E, which saved 572,000 kWh and 83,000 therms of natural gas respectively. The ventilation system upgrade, along with other projects planned for the next three years, will yield at least one-third of the greenhouse gas reductions necessary for UC Berkeley to reach its goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2014. The Higher Education Energy Efficiency Partnership, a collaboration of the UC and California State University systems, California's community colleges and the state's investor-owned utilities, funded the ventilation system project.