2023
In February the cover of the Sunday Seattle Times featured this UW CEUO celebrity
Who is Mark Kirschenbaum?
The name of our department
What is CEUO?
A piece of failed lab equipment was the source of a flood that caused a catastrophic failure of this building's transformer.
What is Wilcox?
The number of chillers purchased for the CCW in 2023.
What is 2?
In 2023, Norm and Dave had to purchase 'carbon allowances' in order for UW to comply with what state law?
The Climate Committment Act (CCA)?
What group joined CEUO as part of the re-organization with M&C in 2023?
What is the refrigeration shop?
The consultant we have hired to develop our energy implementation plan
Who is AEI?
A steam relief located adjacent to the air intake for this building's electrical room caused it's transformer to test it's resilience to water.
What is Fluke Hall?
Ecology collected nearly $2B in its CCA auctions in 2024. How many auctions occurred in 2023?
What is 6?
The Clean Energy Transformation Act requires electrical utilities to be 100% fossil free by what year?
What is 2045?
Chaining themselves to the power plant stack, these students demanded that UW reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 95% by what year?
What is 2035?
The financial consultant advising us on funding the energy renewal project.
Who is EY?
"we've never done that before" was the catch phrase of an August 14th critical incident, where this well known public-utility curtailed electrical service to the West Receiving Station.
Who is Seattle City Light (SCL)?
The number of reportable incidents in CEUO in 2023?
What is 5?
In January 2023 we learned that this City legislation does not apply to UW, and that our participation would be voluntary.
What is building tune-ups?
In September 2023 this senior executive committed UW to decarbonize the power plant within the next ten years.
Who is AMC?
The main source of federal funding for the energy renewal project.
What is the IRA?
Due to "supply" issues in Canada, this private-utility curtailed 100% of the natural gas to the power plant on January 31st, 2023
Who is Puget Sound Energy (PSE)?
How much CCA funding did UW ask for as part of the supplemental budget, after initially suggesting that it limit itself to a $10M ask?
What is $49 Million?
The Mayor of Seattle recently signed off on this piece of legislation that regulates green-house-gas emissions for all buildings over 50,000 square feet.
What is the Building Emissions Performance Standard (BEPS)?
This AVP of UW Bothell retired in December 2023.
Who is Tony Guerrero?
This Industry organization has an up-coming conference in San Francisco. In June I was elected to the executive as the second vice-chair
What is IDEA?
This well known Seattle ESCO company took responsibility for flooding the S-! chiller plant in the spring of 2023.
Who is McKinstry?
How many games did the UW football team win in 2023?
What is 13?
This house-bill, which became law in April of 2023, provides a decarbonization compliance pathway for district energy system with the Clean Building Performance Standard.
What is house bill 1390?