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Author: David Handwork, United Commercial Energy Partners, LLC
Date: March/April 2024
The future of North American campuses’ energy infrastructure has been defined whether your institution is currently preparing or not. Holistic campus electrification will be a reality by 2050, aimed at replacing fossil fuel-based heating, cooking, and energy production. Depending on your geographic location and political status quo, your state/province/city, or county may eliminate local power generation and heating based on fossil fuels by mandating net-zero emission codes and renewable energy. Both the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and ASHRAE 90.1 energy standard have Net Zero Emission (NZE) aggressive goals via publication revision updates by 2032. Prior to 2020, the local and state code adoption cycle typically lagged 8 to 12 or more years following a revision posting. However, the proliferation of politically and financially incentivized climate change actions has accelerated the code adoption cycle to less than three years for a growing majority of U.S. and Canadian jurisdictions. And the cycle may eventually be less than one year for U.S. federally funded facilities, grants (such as Pell Grants), or other funding allocations via an NZE requirement.
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