Reliable electrical infrastructure is essential for everything that happens at UC Santa Cruz — teaching and research, dining and housing, and supporting the daily needs of thousands of students, faculty, and staff.
Reliable electrical infrastructure is essential for everything that happens at UC Santa Cruz — teaching and research, dining and housing, and supporting the daily needs of thousands of students, faculty, and staff. Over the past year, the campus has taken important steps to strengthen power resiliency and reduce the disruption that unexpected outages can cause, especially during the winter rainy season.
The university relies on Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for its day-to-day power needs. The main residential campus also has an established backup system that provides continuity of power to select buildings during outages. Our cogeneration plant, along with building generators, supplies electricity to various facilities when PG&E power is unavailable.
Campus leadership and engineers continue to meet regularly with PG&E to review the quality of power being delivered to campus and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. These discussions are critical to identifying both immediate fixes and long-term infrastructure improvements.
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