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1 The UC San Diego Campus A Test Bed for Sustainability Professor Frieder Seible, Ph.D., Prof. hc mult. November 10, 2009

2 Jacobs School of Engineering Today 5,500 Students/192 Faculty Largest engineering school in UC System 9thBest Engineering School in the World (Academic Ranking of World Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong, 2009) 3 rd in the U.S. for Research Expenditures Per Faculty (U.S. News, 2009) Hottest institution for study of science (Newsweek, 2007) Coolest science destination (Popular Science, 2009)

3 UC San Diego is continuing to ride a wave of recognition! UC San Diego Ranked Top Surfing Campus in the United States

4 Jacobs School History and Development 1965 AEP AMES 1964 Start of Engineering g at UCSD 1964 Division of Engineering 1982 School of Engineering 1994 Current Departments APIS EECS 1989 Syst. Grp. AMES CSE ECE BIOE AMES The Irwin & Joan Jacobs School of Engineering 1997 MAE 2007 CSE ECE BIOE NE MAE Computer Science & Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Bioengineering Nanoengineering 1999 Mechanical & Aerospace Eng. SE SE Structural Engineering Computer Environmental Aerospace Engineering Bioinformatics Materials Engineering Engineering Program Program Science Program Program Program

5 Jacobs School Growth Faculty Undergraduates 3,342 4,150 Graduate Students 720 1,350 Operations $117M $200M Space (gsf) 590K 1M

6 Engineering Institute with Los Alamos Education and Research Partnership to Advance Global Security Graduate Program in Structural Health Monitoring-co located at UCSD and Los Alamos Research for Managing Critical Infrastructure Distributed Sensors and Sensor Networks NDE, Remote Monitoring Energy Harvesting

7 Research Focus Areas Engineering in Medicine Information Technology Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

8 Examples of UC San Diego Leading Cyberinfrastructure Facilities Calit2 San Diego Supercomputer Center Powell Labs

9 Engineering + Medicine UC San Diego one of only four universities with Engineering i and Medicine in the Top 15 National Rankings Innovation Happens Here Innovation Happens Here

10 UC San Diego has a long history of research in plasma science and fusion engineering, and continues to grow EUVL Basic plasma physics, solar & astrophysics ITER Home Team, physics & technology support HAPL Inertial fusion energy technology 1980 s and earlier 1990 s 2000 s Fusion power plant design Plasma boundary physics Magnetic confinement experiments Plasma applications High energy density yphysics ARIES PISCES NSTX HEDP

11 UC San Diego: A living laboratory for energy conservation and alternative energy solutions Community of 40,000 with all aspects of urban life Photovoltaics: 1 MW Installed 2.4 MW planned for 2009/10 Smart Grid: monitor microclimate to adjust HVAC and irrigation in real time Fuel Cell: 2.8 MW cell installed in 2009 using waste methane from water treatment plant to produce hydrogen and electricity Wind Energy: use of off-peak wind energy for UC San Diego 24/7 operations. Sea Water Cooling: saves $4M in energy, 400 liters of water

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13 Students Focus on the Future

14 Jacobs School/UC Davis Co-lead New California Energy Commission Solar Collaborative Develop roadmap for introducing solar technologies Determine which solar technologies are most efficient and economical Build collaboration between utilities, research institutions, manufacturers, investors, regulatory agencies

15 Goal is to create an unparallel granularity of knowledge that permits a reoptimization and rescheduling of generation, storage and demand on an hourly basis s based upon dynamic market etprice cesg signals. as. The use of SDSC SCwill provide an unprecedented data computing, analysis and visualization. UCSD s Grid Import Profile in MWs on a 15 minute interval, 2007

16 UCSD Powerhouse for Cyberinfrastructure, now Innovator for Energy Efficient Computing NSF Project Greenlight: New Ways to Measure Energy Efficiency of Computers As part of research project, UC San Diego is consolidating computer servers in energy-efficient mobile facilities.

17 DC Modular Data Center

18 Industry - Focus on the Future UC San Diego: Sun Black Box Earthquake Test Seismic Response Modification Device

19 Fuel Cell & Energy Storage UCSD Energy Storage ($10.5M of DOE request) $3.4M CPUC incentive conditionally reserved to UCSD on July 14 th 2.8 MW / 12 MWh of Peak Shaving Storage Distributed Energy Storage ($7.3M DOE) 2.0 MW / 8 MWh of cost sharing with CPUC 0.4 MW / 1 MWh of new PV integrated storage Frequency Regulation ($3.2M DOE) 1.0 MW /.5 MWh for on campus peak shaving and frequency regulation to the grid Living Laboratory for innovative systems (Fluidic Energy)

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21 Additional Infrastructure Needed to Tap Region's Expansive Renewable Energy Potential Sunrise Powerlink will facilitate 1,000 MW of a much larger potential supply of renewable energy Experts have identified d the San Diego and Imperial counties, and Baja California Mega-Region as one of the top locations in the country to generate renewable energy The renewable energy resources potential: ti Solar Energy 6,550 megawatts Source: Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 2A Draft Resource Report Wind Energy 3,495 megawatts including Baja California Sources: RETI Phase 2A Draft Resource Report Geothermal Energy 2,000 megawatts Source: Imperial Irrigation District Summit Blue Report 2008 [Note: References are to gross potential without project specific economic analysis]

22 Campo Wind Project Announced June 9, 2009 Partnership between SDG&E, the Campo Band of the Kumeyaay Nation and Invenergy LLC Invenergy to develop a wind farm on Campo reservation SDG&E to purchase energy Generate up to 160 megawatts of wind power 22

23 DEPARTMENT OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

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25 Controlled Renewable Energy Output System CREOS Research problems to the grid arising from high penetration of intermittent renewables Investigate t suitable energy storage technologies to help solve these problems Design a residential battery management age e system Evaluate the battery management system s financial viability and potential market 2001 San Diego Gas and Electric. All copyright and trademark rights reserved.

26 CREOS Critical Loads Household Load DC-DC converter Inverter/ charger Subpanel Disconnect Device Controller HAN/Internet

27 Fleet of 20 Nissan All Electric Leafs

28 See You in San Diego!

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