{"id":69460,"date":"2023-06-13T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69460"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:40:30","slug":"skydome-lighting-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/skydome-lighting-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Facility Services gets APS rebate for Skydome lighting project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU\u2019s Facility Services and the Office of Sustainability teams received a $42,892 rebate from APS for the Skydome LED retrofit project.\u00a0 This project aims to reduce power and noise by replacing halogen bulbs in the Skydome with LED lighting throughout the facility; the LED system, in addition to being more energy-efficient, lasts longer and requires less maintenance labor.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Skydome LED retrofit project was the inaugural project for the Sustainability Revolving Fund. It was funded in collaboration with the Student Green Fund. Energy savings realized from this project, along with the APS rebate money, will go back to the Sustainability Revolving Fund to fund more energy and water efficiency projects across campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOver its lifetime, this project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4,500 metric tons and annually save NAU approximately $125,000,&#8221; Chief Sustainability Officer Erik Nielsen said. &#8220;This approach demonstrates the value of investing in conservation and energy efficiency as critical strategy to meet our 2030 carbon neutrality goals, and we look forward to continued collaboration with APS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NAU faculty and staff can also take advantage of APS and federal tax incentives to reduce their residential greenhouse gas emissions and save money through home energy efficiency measures like smart thermostats, insulation and duct cleaning. For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.com\/en\/Residential\/Save-Money-and-Energy\/Your-Energy-Your-Options\/Rebates\">https:\/\/www.aps.com\/en\/Residential\/Save-Money-and-Energy\/Your-Energy-Your-Options\/Rebates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rewiringamerica.org\/app\/ira-calculator\">https:\/\/www.rewiringamerica.org\/app\/ira-calculator.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/skydome-lighting-project\/\">NAU\u2019s Facility Services and the Office of Sustainability teams received a $42,892 rebate from APS for the Skydome LED retrofit project.\u00a0 This project aims to reduce power and noise by replacing halogen bulbs in the Skydome with LED lighting throughout the facility; the LED system, in addition to being more energy-efficient, lasts longer and requires&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":69461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}