Climate action plan:
-Established in 2009, carbon neural in 2035
-Most energy requirement from heating
-10 Facilities on campus consumes roughly 37% of Cornell's energy requirement
-Synchrotron facility accounts for 12% of TOTAL CONSUMPTION!
-159,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2017
TAKEAWAY
-Because NYS does not have an abundance of one type of resource (hydro in Washington, solar in Arizona), NYS has to have a diverse variety of different renewable energy sources in order to become energy independent
-There is no turnkey solution for these technologies. Because weather is so variable at Cornell, with winter months providing the least amount of solar radiation, each project site needs to be carefully optimized in order to maximize generation capacity