{"id":182238,"date":"2023-10-05T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=182238"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:43:54","slug":"reducing-the-carbon-footprint-of-uris-bay-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/reducing-the-carbon-footprint-of-uris-bay-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the carbon footprint of URI&#8217;s Bay Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<h4>October 1, 2023<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Congratulations to the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/administration\/facilities\/\">Bay Campus Facilities team<\/a> for reducing the carbon footprint of campus operations! Since 2020, nearly $1.4 million in projects\u2014funded by the utility company (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rienergy.com\/RI-Business\/default?regionkey=ri&amp;customertype=business\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">National Grid US<\/span>\/<span class=\"xt0psk2\">Rhode Island Energy<\/span><\/a>)\u2014have been completed. These projects, focused on energy efficient equipment and systems, have reduced annual campus electrical consumption by over 740,000 kWH and annual gas usage by 14,000 therms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">This is exciting news because that reduction continues every year moving forward for the life of the equipment. It&#8217;s also a great example of leveraging and cooperating with external partners to get capital assets replaced without impacting existing URI funds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2020, nearly $1.4 million in projects have been completed on the Bay Campus, reducing annual campus electrical consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":182239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182243,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182238\/revisions\/182243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}