"Why doesn't the company installing the solar panels at U of I put them over the parking lot? I would provide shade for the cars underneath and would eliminate having to kill whatever would be underneath them in the fields."
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University Laboratory High School (Uni High)
1212 West Springfield Avenue
61801
Urbana
, IL
United States
Illinois
Projects at this location
| Project | Description |
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| Solar Desalination |
The Solar Desalination funding program will develop novel technologies or concepts using solar thermal energy to assist in creating freshwater from otherwise unusable waters. Thermal desalination is a potential solution to increase water supplies for municipal water and agriculture, and is an important technology to purify water produced from various industrial processes, including oil and gas production. |
| Full-Spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight (FOCUS) |
FOCUS projects aim to enable cost-effective solar energy systems that offer the best of today's existing technologies: high-efficiency conversion of sunlight to electricity and stored, dispatchable energy from heat. |
| SUNSHOT Initiative |
The SUNSHOT initiative is a national effort to support solar energy adoption by making solar energy affordable for all Americans through research and development efforts in collaboration with public and private partners. |
| Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge |
This program funds research attempting to understand the interaction between climate variability and agricultural production systems to develop the plants, animals and management systems that will be robust and productive under changing environmental conditions while providing the important ecosystem services needed from these lands. |
| Energy for Sustainability |
The program supports fundamental engineering research that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and fuels, and for energy storage. These processes must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and use renewable resources. |
| Dimensions of Biodiversity |
The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. Successful proposals pursue an integrated approach to understand the interactions and feedback among genetic, phylogenetic and functional dimensions of biodiversity. |
| Uni High Butterfly Garden |
This project is about butterfly/pollinator planting between the Uni Gym and Hue House, which was approved by the University Landscape Architect Brent Lewis. The team is working with the Tree Club as the Tree Club is interested in helping with the Butterfly Planting. |
| Uni High Gym Rooftop Solar PVs |
The University of Illinois Laboratory High School (Uni) received grant funding from Illinois Clean Energy Fund (ICECF) through its |
| LED Exit Signs |
As part of the iCAP and LED Campus initiatives at the University, incandescent and flourescent bulbs in Exit Signs are being replaced with LEDs. This is part of the LED Campus commitment to replace all interior wayfinding fixtures on campus by 2025. |
| Lighting Retrofit #5 |
In Lighting Retrofit #5 a total of 32,993 T-12 fixtures were replaced with thinner, more energy effiecient T-8 fixtures. This will incur a total Annual KWh Savings of 5,414,849 hours. Fifty-five university buildings were involved in this part of the T-12 to T-8 Lighting Retrofit Project. The total Simple Payback is estimated to be 3.1 years. |
Projects
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Dimensions of Biodiversity -
Energy for Sustainability
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Full-Spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight (FOCUS)
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LED Exit Signs -
Lighting Retrofit #5
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Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge
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Solar Desalination
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SUNSHOT Initiative
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Uni High Butterfly Garden -
Uni High Gym Rooftop Solar PVs
Project Updates
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6/28/2020
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6/6/2018
They would like to put in an 8x16 foot garden, south of Uni gym, beginning about 6 feet west of the parking