Investments in New California Projects Move UC Nearly Halfway to its Clean Energy Goals
The University of California has taken a major step toward meeting its 2025 carbon neutrality goals with two innovative clean energy projects in California: the construction of a new biogas plant and a utility-scale solar array, a collection of multiple solar panels that generate renewable electricity. The efforts bring UC nearly halfway to its ambitious clean energy objectives while reducing costs along the way.
The projects will power all of UC’s 10 campuses. Solar energy will be used to supplement campus electricity and the biogas will fuel UC’s own utility plants that produce campus electricity, heating and cooling. Taken together, the projects will supply to UC campuses energy equivalent to the amount used by 15,000 California homes.
By UC Office of the President