National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

NCEAS Working Groups

TomKat: Natural gas exit strategies for the University of California

Project Description

65% of the UC's scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions currently come from six cogeneration power plants. In order for the campuses to meet their carbon neutrality goals, this infrastructure must be retrofitted or overhauled completely to remove natural gas combustion. While a 2014 report investigated methods of mitigating the natural gas problem, it did not go far enough to completely remove it. We propose to conduct a technical and economic survey of methods of completely removing natural gas use for electricity, heating, and cooling systems for each of the campuses using cogeneration. The outcome of this project will be a recommended pathway for each campus to proceed in infrastructure overhaul to meet this objective.
Working Group Participants

Principal Investigator(s)

Alan Meier, Steven J Davis, Igor Mezic, David G. Victor

Project Dates

Start: August 1, 2016

End: January 24, 2017

completed

Participants

Ahmed Abdulla
University of California, San Diego
David Auston
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fred Bockmiller
University of California, Irvine
Wendell Brase
University of California, Irvine
Jacob Brouwer
University of California, Irvine
Karl Brown
University of California, Berkeley
Sandra Brown
University of California, San Diego
Jennifer Burney
University of California, San Diego
Sue Carter
University of California, Santa Cruz
Steven J Davis
University of California, Irvine
Charles Diamond
University of California, Santa Barbara
John Dilliott
University of California, San Diego
John Elliott
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William Glassley
University of California, Davis
Stephen Kaffka
University of California, Davis
Carrie V. Kappel
University of California, Santa Barbara
Margarita Kloss
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jay McConagha
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa McNeilly
University of California, Berkeley
Alan Meier
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Igor Mezic
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Modera
University of California, Davis
Joshua Morejohn
University of California, Davis
Michelle O'Malley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rebecca Pass
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Phillips
University of California, Office of the President
Evan Ritzinger
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jordan Sager
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tsu Chin Tsao
University of California, Los Angeles
David G. Victor
University of California, San Diego
Alexandra von Meier
University of California, Berkeley
David Weil
University of San Diego
Steven Steve Weissman
University of California, Berkeley
Jim Williams
E3
Ruihong Zhang
University of California, Davis

Products

  1. Journal Article / 2018

    University of California Strategies for Decarbonization: Replacing Natural Gas

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  2. Journal Article / 2018

    Turning Paris into reality at the University of California

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