Pivot Energy, a nationwide renewable power unbiased energy producer, and the College of Colorado Boulder, formally broke floor on a 5-MWDC digital web metering photo voltaic undertaking in Weld County, Colorado final week.
Brian Lindoerfer, affiliate vice chancellor for amenities administration, CU Boulder; Cara Carmichael, affiliate vice chancellor for sustainability, CU Boulder; Chris Ewing, vice chancellor for infrastructure and resilience, CU Boulder; Matt Brenn, director, neighborhood photo voltaic subscriptions, Pivot Vitality; Mat Elmore, senior vp, strategic accounts, Pivot Vitality; Isaiah Grayck, undertaking supervisor, Pivot Vitality
The milestone marks the following part in a partnership first introduced in July 2024, and helps the college’s broader clear power objectives whereas advancing its Local weather Motion Plan. Pivot Vitality will develop, personal and function the off-site undertaking, which is anticipated to be accomplished in early 2026.
Underneath a 20-year subscription settlement, CU-Boulder will profit from a digital web metering program established by Colorado Senate Invoice 21-261 in 2021, which lets the college subscribe to power produced off-site and obtain credit on its electrical energy payments together with 100% of the undertaking’s renewable power credit. The photo voltaic array can even offset CU-Boulder’s electrical energy utilization and advance its Scope 2 greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions objectives (50% by 2030) and obtain carbon neutrality by 2050. The initiative is price impartial.
“This partnership with Pivot Vitality is a robust instance of how CU-Boulder is main with objective,” mentioned CU-Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz. “We’re not simply speaking about sustainability – we’re constructing it into the material of our operations in methods which are each financially accountable and environmentally impactful.”
As soon as full, the undertaking is anticipated to provide roughly 9.5 million kWh of photo voltaic power yearly. Laid end-to-end, the undertaking’s approximate 8,000 photo voltaic panels are sufficient to fill 4 soccer fields. Moreover, agrivoltaics can be built-in into this undertaking. A flock of roughly 100 sheep will present “lamb-scaping” companies on web site to handle the vegetation from April by means of October every year. A neighborhood rancher will present extra grazing land on the undertaking web site.
“Pivot Vitality is proud to companion with the College of Colorado Boulder on this undertaking and excited to start out building,” mentioned Mat Elmore, senior VP of strategic accounts at Pivot Vitality. “It is a win-win for each Colorado’s largest college and Pivot — serving to CU-Boulder attain its renewable power objectives and Pivot speed up the shift to photo voltaic power all through the nation.”
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