The UJI invests more than 5 million euros to improve energy efficiency and to set up new photovoltaic solar parks on campus



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## The UJI invests more than 5 million euros to improve energy efficiency and to set up new photovoltaic solar parks on campus

13/10/2022 |
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The Universitat Jaume I has allocated more than five million euros of investment to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and to expand the network of photovoltaic solar parks on campus. The rector Eva Alcón stressed that "this investment responds to a strategic planning within the institutional commitment of the UJI for sustainability and the fight against climate change, and aims to minimise energy consumption and increase the use of green energy".

In fact, at the beginning of 2020, the then Vice-rector’s Office for the Campus and Healthy Life created the Working Group for Sustainability and against Climate Change in order to develop a strategic plan that integrates the actions to address the climate emergency. In accordance with this approach, the Technical Office for Construction Work and Projects (OTOP) proposed a series of actions in buildings to implement improvements in the air conditioning and management systems and in the insulation of the roofs of the oldest buildings, as well as the installation of photovoltaic panels.

Now, under the direction of the Vice-rector’s Office for Infrastructures and Sustainability, this programme continues to be deployed to move towards an energy-efficient campus and promote savings in consumption and, at the same time, expand the supply through sustainable energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy.

With regard to energy efficiency projects, the UJI has already carried out improvements in the departmental buildings of the Faculty of Law and Economics, and those planned for the School of Technology and Experimental Sciences are underway, which will be continued in 2023. For next year, works are also planned for the Research Building II and the Doctoral School and Board of Trustees building.

Overall, the works involve improving the insulation of the roofs, replacing the lighting with new low-consumption LED technology, replacing the air-conditioning system with more efficient equipment and optimising the centralised management system. Altogether, these actions represent an investment of 4.2 million euros.

In parallel, the UJI has installed between 2021 and 2022 five new photovoltaic solar parks — one of which is currently being executed — and has planned another three for 2023, with a global investment of 1.1 million euros. In all cases, these photovoltaic installations are intended for self-consumption in order to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and reduce consumption from the grid.

The Vice-rector for Infrastructures and Sustainability, Vicent Cervera, stressed that "this strategy is allowing us to deploy essential actions in a planned way to make the UJI a more sustainable university, giving us the flexibility to incorporate other projects depending on resources".

For the deployment of these actions, the Universitat Jaume I has applied for and obtained funding from the Programme to Promote the Rehabilitation of Public Buildings (PIREP) of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, with European funds NextGenerationEU, in addition to other aid from the Valencian Institute for Business Competitiveness (IVACE), within the framework of the Energy Rehabilitation of Buildings Programme (PREE) of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDEA), also with support from the European Union within the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) "A way of doing Europe".

Despite this effort to improve energy efficiency on campus and expand the use of sustainable sources of supply, in the face of the escalating prices of the energy bill — light and gas — the UJI has also had to activate extraordinary measures to contain costs, such as limiting the temperature or the controlled shutdown of air conditioning.

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