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CASE STUDIES NO. 5 AND 6
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED
(Below) Graph of UC Merced campus plan for energy use through 2024. Note campus is planned to be net positive by 2020. (Courtesy of John Elliott).
newable energy supply will come online. The plan is that overall, the campus as a whole will achieve ZNE in 2020, as detailed in the graph below.
“ZNE Buildings” at UC Merced
This is the context of the two case study buildings located at the UC Merced campus, the Sci- ence & Engineering Building I and the Classroom & Office Building. These two buildings do not meet the ZNE “Site” definition in the narrow sense of the term since they do not have renewable energy systems directly attached to them; they will be powered through renewable energy sys- tems established at the campus level as targeted by 2020. However, the critical factor for these two buildings (as with subsequent buildings as the campus is built out) is that they meet a tar- geted performance level so that the planned renewable energy systems will in fact be adequate to achieve the campus-wide ZNE goal. Therefore, a focus on building operations is essential in meeting (and exceeding!) targeted performance goals.
The two buildings are being included as case studies because they will ultimately (in 6 years) be part of an ensemble of campus buildings performing to a zero net energy level. The two buildings
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