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CEF Projects Portfolio

2012-13 Projects

UVM Central Heat Plant -- Solar Array Upgrade & Optimization

This is a two-phase project.  The first phase will upgrade the existing solar array panels, a 4.8-kW system installed in 2001, on the UVM Central Heating Plant. Inverters will be installed to...

Hybrid Street Lamp System with Helix Bamboo Wind Turbines and Solar Panels

This project is a hybrid street lamp system using dynamic LED lights powered by a combination of helix bamboo wind turbines and solar panels. Energy harvested from wind and solar during the...

CEF Lecture Series: Energy Action Seminar

This is a seminar series on renewable energy to include speakers focused on U.S. and global renewable energy programs and Vermont state programs and organizations. Energy is a major impact on...

2011-12 Projects

CEF Lecture Series: "Vermont's Energy Future" Lecture Series Keynote Speaker, James Howard Kunstler

The CEF awarded funds to the Center for Research on Vermont for a spring 2012 lecture series on campus, titled "Vermont's Energy Future," as part of the...

Virtualized Desktop Computer Lab in Kalkin

The Virtualized Desktop project focuses on virtualizing one computer lab in the Kalkin building as a pilot to build the capacity and  to create a demonstrable configuration to...

Ecological Food and Renewable Energy Systems Greenhouse

A first phase feasibility and design project is looking into compost heat as an agricultural energy source for a combined research and production greenhouse at Miller Research Farm. In combination...

CleanSpeed: A Student Developed Zero Emissions Vehicle

UVM's Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO) built an all-electric, zero emissions race car over the course of 2012-2013 academic year.  A race-ready vehicle was ready in time for...

Compost Power: Using Compost Power to Heat a Greenhouse

This project involves onsite composting as the heat source for an existing greenhouse structure at Slade Hall. In addition, it will produce organic vegetables and compost, and support student...

CEF Lecture Series: Climate Action Seminar

This special Fall 2012 seminar series featured top-level thinkers engaged in identifying best practices as we navigate our climate future.

2010-11 Projects

Comprehensive Campus Renewable Energy Feasibility Study

How significant a role can campus-based renewable energy play in UVM’s progress towards carbon neutrality?

Green Labs Program

This program will help reduce energy consumption in laboratory buildings through strategic equipment upgrades and peer outreach. The CEF will fund a program manager to run a pilot program that 1)...

Clean Energy Internship Program

The CEF will sponsor student internships dedicated to clean energy on campus. Applications for these funds from internship sponsors and applications for internships from interested students will...

Clean Energy Futures Lecture/Workshop Series

The CEF will set aside funds each year to sponsor clean energy-related lectures, talks, symposia, and/or workshops.

Organic Solar Cells Fabricated by UVM Students

This project supported the development of a lab for two Spring 2012 courses in the Physics department: Physics 096, “Physics, Energy, and the Environment", a course recently...

GreenHouse Solar (structural & electrical study)

Though solar energy opportunities on campus will be addressed in the comprehensive campus renewable energy feasibility study, the CEF will support a structural and electrical feasibility study of...

Pilot Revolving Door Installation (architectural study)

Proposed by the Physical Plant Department, this project will lay the groundwork for a potential installation of energy-saving revolving doors at either the Davis Center or Bailey-Howe Library....

2009-10 Projects

Equine Center Solar Photovoltaic System

This project involved the installation of a 32kW static electric grid-tied photovoltaic system at the site of University of Vermont’s Ellen A. Hardacre Equine Center in the Miller Research...

Solar Hot Water System Project @ UVM

Formerly called the Slade Hall Solar Hot Water System project, the funding for this project has been earmarked for a future solar hot water system installation project that will be identified in...

Aiken Solar Trackers

In 2010, the CEF funded the installation of seventeen 4 kilowatt Solar Photovoltaic Tracker Panels, which will count towards LEED accreditation for the...

Energy Auditing & Retrofitting Course

The CEF funded the development of an energy auditing course (CDAE 195) by Gund Institute Fellow and Rubenstein and CDAE faculty Gary Flomenhoft. The CEF also provided funds for project...

University-wide Energy Display System

The CEF is supporting the expansion of a building dashboard system similar to the current system in the Davis Center and the system planned for the new Aiken building. This system will display the...

Virtual Solar Carport Course

In 2010, the Clean Energy Fund voted to support the development of a new course module by Richard Watts of UVM's Transportation Research...

Solar Power & Smart Grid Lab @ Votey

The goal of this project was to transform Votey Hall into an integrated, wireless, smart grid and renewable energy laboratory. Specifically, students completed the following engineering tasks (you...

Biomass Feasibility Study for Trinity Campus

This project, approved by the CEF committee in 2010, explored the feasibility of a potential biomass energy system on UVM's Trinity Campus. 

Interns in the Physical Plant...

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Clean Energy Fund Implementation and Education Program

This program is designed to support the implementation of CEF projects and connecting projects with academic activities on campus. The following components fo the program is the annual budget....