Feb. 25: Green Liaisons host Firestone
Researcher Firestone to lead lunchtime sustainability talk about UD's wind turbine
12:53 p.m., Feb. 23, 2015--The first University of Delaware Green Liaisons sustainability lecture of the spring, featuring UD researcher Jeremy Firestone will be held from noon-1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Perkins Student Center Ewing Room.
Firestone will speak about the wind turbine located on the University’s Lewes campus.
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UD and Gamesa Technology Corp. joined forces to install a utility-scale, 2 megawatt (2 MW) wind turbine at the University’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. The joint venture’s First State Marine Wind is a partnership between UD-owned Blue Hen Wind and Gamesa, USA.
The wind turbine generates electricity to power UD’s coastal campus, with excess electricity sold for use to the residents of the Town of Lewes. The town is integral to the success of the project because the wind turbine interconnects with the electricity grid managed by Lewes.
In addition to providing clean, carbon-free integration, the wind turbine functions as a research, development and education platform.
A faculty member in the School of Marine Science and Policy and director of the University of Delaware’s interdisciplinary Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, Firestone will talk about his research, which focuses on offshore wind, with emphasis on social acceptance, economics, spatial planning, environmental effects and regulation.
Firestone played a leading role in the development, permitting and construction of the wind turbine located adjacent to the Hugh R. Sharp Campus and his extensive involvement with operations continues to this day.
He recently served on a University working group that reviewed and analyzed the data center and power plant that was proposed to be located on the Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus.
More about Green Liaisons Sustainability Lecture Series
Once a month, Green Liaisons are invited to attend a lunchtime presentation on the small steps that can be implemented by every student, faculty and staff member in order to make UD a greener place to learn, work and live.
All lunches in the Green Liaisons Sustainability Lecture Series are open to Green Liaisons and are usually held from noon to 1p.m. Members are encouraged to bring their own lunches if they want to. Topics and locations change monthly. Drinks and dessert are provided.
Members of the campus community who are not currently Green Liaisons but want to represent their departments can contact Francis Karani at fkarani@udel.edu or Emily Behnke at ebehnke@udel.edu.
More information regarding the lunch schedule, past events and general information on the Green Liaisons Programs can be found on the website.
Article by Tabitha Groh
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson