The largest campus of Portland's Community Colleges, namely the Sylvania campus, located between Tigard and Lake Oswego, is moving towards becoming a Net-Zero campus. The campus retrofit is scheduled to be completed by 2013, and involves erecting a new campus building, in addition to installing a 1.1 megawatt co-generator to replace its current coal-fired and natural gas systems. This generator will, according to Linda Gerber, the PCC Sylvania Campus President, reduce the school's power bill by $1.1 million annually, from a current $1.6 million to a much lower $400,000. The retrofit is also expected to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 57%.
The price tag for the retrofit is $15,4 million dollars, and is the first of several upgrades to the PCC Campuses. PCC received a $1 million grant from the Oregon State Energy Program, which helped to jumpstart the project.
Read more at http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/01/14/Moving-Toward-a-Net-Zero-Campus.aspx
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