UI Energy Challenge
UPDATE
Among the UI's current Energy Plan’s ambitious goals are a 10 percent energy reduction and 15 percent overall renewable energy use by 2013. UI President Sally Mason, in an April 22, 2008, announcement on strengthening the UI's emphasis on sustainability, recommended moving those targets to 2010. The original goals of the Energy Plan appear below. To read the entire speech by President Mason, go to: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/april/042208mason-sustainability.html

(released 02/07) The Energy Conservation Advisory Council (ECAC) challenges The University of Iowa to (1) reduce energy consumption by 10%, and (2) increase the use of renewable energy to represent 15% of the total energy portfolio.

Ten Percent Energy Reduction by 2013
To offset future rising energy costs, the ECAC has set the goal of reducing energy consumption, over a Fiscal Year 2003 baseline, by 10%. The University of Iowa will reduce energy consumption by an average of 10% per square foot per degree-day by July 1, 2013 for the aggregate of all major, owned, conditioned buildings built prior to 2003.

Fifteen percent Renewable Energy by 2013
To maintain its national leadership in the use of alternative and sustainable energy, by July 1, 2013, 15% of all energy consumed by the UI campus will be produced from renewable sources. Renewable energy sources include solar, wind, waste management, resource recovery, refuse-
derived fuel, biomass, wood burning,
small hydro, and other carbon
neutral sources.