The eighth
week of my summer internship at Sustainable Princeton began with me working on
filling out an application for New Jersey’s local
government energy audit program (LGEA) so that the Municipality of
Princeton can get an energy audit. If the application is accepted the LGEA
program’s audit will get us an expert to examine our facilities and see how we
can improve our energy use. This program will also help us with identifying
cost-justified energy-efficiency measures and will as subsidize the entirety of
the audit’s cost. With the completion of this audit many options that
contribute to the fulfillment of the Municipality of Princeton’s commitment to
the Paris climate agreement become available. These include such things as
retrofits and perhaps even a microgrid. So far, we have only completed the
section on how much electricity and natural gas were used for the last fourteen
months and how much it has costed using PSE&G’s online records of the
Municipality of Princeton’s bills.
The
other major thing that happened this week was that the local supermarket
serving as the primary drop off point for the BYOB plastic film recycling
program McCaffrey’s has donated $375 dollars to Sustainable Princeton so that
we can acquire more bins and stickers to create the additional drop off points
we have been setting the groundwork for these past weeks. With this we can
acquire ten bins and enough stickers containing information on the BYOB program
for these ten bins and more! This will allow us to create all seven of the drop
off points we have planned out and give us room to create an additional three
drop off points if we think of any good spots.
For the ninth
week of my internship I plan on both acquiring the bins so as to start the
process of setting them up and continue to work on the application for the LGEA
energy audit. Overall, this was a wonderful week and I am excited to see what
the next week of my internship will bring!
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