{"id":127597,"date":"2020-09-24T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=127597"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:37:51","slug":"windward-cc-sustainable-pv-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/24\/windward-cc-sustainable-pv-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> moves closer to achieving energy sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_127575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127575\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-1.jpg\" alt=\"p v panels in parking lot\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>PV<\/abbr> in the main parking area at Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr><\/a> in leading the way to energy sustainability across the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> System. On September 1, Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> became the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College<\/a> campus to significantly reduce its carbon footprint by generating 70% of its energy through on-site photovoltaic (<abbr>PV<\/abbr>) systems. Through the combination of solar shade canopies, distributed energy storage and energy efficiency measures, Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> will reduce its use of fossil fuel consumption for energy by an estimated 70 percent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/19\/leeward-first-uh-net-zero-campus\/\">Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> becomes <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s first net-zero campus<\/a>, July 19, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 3,125 <abbr>PV<\/abbr> modules installed on the Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> campus are capable of generating 1.469 megawatts of power annually, enough to power 177 homes every year, and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions equal to 3,554 barrels of oil a year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, we live our values,&rdquo; said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Chancellor <strong>Ardis Eschenberg<\/strong>. &ldquo;The addition of photovoltaic systems instantiates our institutional value of sustainability, as noted in the <em><span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"noeau\">no&#699;eau<\/span> (Hawaiian saying), he <span aria-label=\"alii\">ali&#699;i<\/span> ka <span aria-label=\"aina,\">&#699;&#257;ina,<\/span> he kauw&#257; ke kanaka<\/em> (the land is the chief, man is its servant). Our energy initiatives help us to serve the earth better as we serve our students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under a partnership between <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsoncontrols.com\/\">Johnson Controls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hei.com\/\">Hawaiian Electric Industries<\/a> subsidiary Pacific Current, three other <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campuses&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a>&#8212;will soon reduce their fossil fuel consumption by up to 98 percent. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> and the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Legislature established a collective goal for the university system to be &ldquo;net-zero&rdquo; by January 1, 2035, meaning the system would produce as much renewable energy as it consumes across its 10 campuses.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Bonnie Beatson<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127574\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-2.jpg\" alt=\"p v panels in parking lot\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/windward-net-zero-pv-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>PV<\/abbr> panels in the Hale P\u0101lanakila parking lot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campus is reducing its carbon footprint by generating 70 percent of its energy through <abbr title=\"photovoltaic\">PV<\/abbr> systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62,63,65,73,71,66],"class_list":["post-127597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127605,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127597\/revisions\/127605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}