East Campus Resiliency Project
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NREL Partnership
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Project Benefits:
- Less vulnerable to weather related outages
- Reduce downtime (improve reliability)
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- Improve research facility uptime
- Living Lab to university research and City of Boulder
- Future gateway to electrification of transportation
Project Outcomes:
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Energy Resiliency
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