Chronicle of Higher Ed highlights Scott Park
The Chronicle of Higher Education has taken notice of UT’s alternative energy education efforts on its Buildings & Grounds blog.
From the Chronicle:
Work on the University of Toledo’s Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation is well underway, the groundbreaking having taken place in September. Programs on the campus, a former overflow campus for the university, will focus on developing and marketing alternative-energy technologies, like wind, biofuel, and solar. Some of those technologies will help to power the campus, which is shooting for a carbon-neutral footprint.
A 100-foot-tall, 80-kilowatt wind turbine has already been erected on the site. More than 1.2 megawatts’ worth of solar panels, some of them developed by a company that got its start at the university, are being installed as well. (Toledo apparently has a reputation for being the solar capital of the Midwest. Who knew?)
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