Designing a Renewable Energy Portfolio for USD

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Part 1

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Determine USD’s current energy requirements, sources, and costs.

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• What is USD’s total annual energy needs?
  • You may report an average, a maximum, or a recent fiscal year.
  • Make your thought process explicit and justify whatever you decide.
  • If no energy-saving measures are implemented, is this value likely to go up or down in future years? Why?
• What is USD’s total annual cost for its energy over the period chosen above?
• How much energy needs to be produced annually by your team’s renewable energy portfolio? For our purposes, the existing solar panels will remain in place.
• What are the peak power requirements? How might these peaks affect your designs?

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All information is available in the “campus electricity sources.xlsx” spreadsheet.

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Part 2

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Design a renewable energy portfolio that will replace the energy USD currently gets from non-renewable sources. Again, for our purposes, the existing solar panels will remain in place. Therefore, the proposed renewable energy portfolio must replace the energy USD currently gets from local utility companies and from the natural gas fuel cells.

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Your group must:

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• Choose the renewable energy source(s); technical specifications must be provided
• Propose installation locations on campus
• Estimate initial and long-term costs of the proposed renewable energy portfolio
• Compare costs with current electricity sources
• Describe any environmental impacts (during manufacture and also local effects after installation)
• Justify the appropriateness and feasibility of the portfolio

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Deliverable

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Technical report draft with the Proposed Renewable Energy Plan section completed. Use tables and figures as appropriate. Be sure to properly cite all sources.