07-02-2022, 10:54 PM
I was surprised to hear about the outage because I thought Stanford still generated its own power at the Cardinal Cogeneration Plant on campus.
Turns out that the Cogen plant shut down in 2015, and as of a few months ago 100% of the electricity comes from a solar farm in the Central Valley:
https://news.stanford.edu/2015/04/01/car...si-040115/
https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/03...es-online/
Turns out that the Cogen plant shut down in 2015, and as of a few months ago 100% of the electricity comes from a solar farm in the Central Valley:
https://news.stanford.edu/2015/04/01/car...si-040115/
https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/03...es-online/

