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1. Sustainability

   1. Clean Energy

      1. Central Utilities Plant

         The Central Utilities Plant supplies chilled water, high temperature hot water, and electricity to the majority of the 15 million square foot campus. The plant houses two 13.5 MW natural gas turbine generators, one 3 MW steam turbine generator and has more than 20,000 tons of chilled water generation capacity along with 320,000 lbs/hr of steam boiler capacity. Electricity is distributed to the campus via UC San Diego’s microgrid, while chilled water and high temperature water are distributed via an underground tunnel system.