lut green campus marko kasurinen

Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT)

Green your mind - mind your green

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CampusCar: electric cars, CamBus: electricbus

CamBike: electric bicyles

Lappeenranta city and South-Karelia

SkinnWind: windmill

-30 m, 20 kW

SkinnSolar: solar panels

-200 m2 , 20 kW

”GREEN CAMPUS” Skinnarila - Campus

LUT + Saimia + Technopolis + LOAS

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SAMMIO

”Joulella pisimmälle” Competition for electric vehicles

Smart Energy Grid System

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Windmill & Schwäbisch Hall -park

• 20 kW

• 30 m tall

• 5,5 m blades

• Produces enough electricity for 3-8 domestic houses

Solar park (as originally planned)

• 20 kW

• Will be on the roofs and parking lot

• Some of it has been installed and rest are going to be on spring

• Similar power to wind mill, so the comparison is valid

Weather station

• www.saapalvelu.fi/lappeenranta

• We need weather information to compare

energy production figures

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SmartGrid

Actions at the

customer gateway

Active

monitoring,

optimisation

and control of

energy use and

power flows

Generation

Solar, wind,

fuel cell, biogas

Grid

ENERGY

STORAGE

Loads; controllable, non-controllable

Information systems

Action signals based on

optimization against different

targets of system players

Market players;

TSO, DSO, supplier, aggregator

CampusCar

• Two cars being part of

SmartGrid-research

• Modified Toyota Prius hybrid ja

Fully converted to electric

vehicle VW Passat

• 3 charging stations coming, one

for public.

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Electric bikes for students

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Sammio

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• Learning environment

• Brings different faculties together

• Students can build electric vehicles and other ”Green Campus- stuff”

Green Office

• Environmental management program made during 2012 finished in

september

• Constant improvement in sustainability issues

• Upcoming things:

• Improving metering of our buildings

• Improving control of lights

• Improving air conditioning and heating systems

• We also joined Kyyti.Net rideshare system

• Also finding out possibilities to increase working from home

LUT Green Office :

• Reducing electricity consumption by 10 % (almost 100 000 euros)

• Reducing use of paper by 10 %

• Reducing use of heat energy by 10 %

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Happenings

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CAMBUS - project

• One example of research :

• Packaging line of the future

Whats happening next

• Environmental manager started in February

• Goal is to get succesfully audited for ISO 14001

• Solar plans expanded; We are building the biggest solar plant in Finland

• 220 kW

• 100-150 kW during this year and the rest during 2014

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Lappeenranta vs. Frankfurt solar power

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Kuukausi

Frankfurt, Saksa

Lappeenranta, Suomi

Conclusion

Research environment Education environment Demonstration

Renewable energy and sustainable campus

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