UC Berkeley to Cut Power by 50% in Four Years

Forgot to put this in the last post about UC Berkeley trying to get undergrads into research.

The university will try to cut its power consumption by 50 percent within four years, according to S. Shankar Sastry, dean of the college of engineering at the university.

Berkeley in some ways is the national center for energy efficiency. Art Rosenfeld was a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) when he began the push to get the state to force appliance makers to curb the power their products consumed. His work has saved several billion. LBL is also the home of the Center for Building Science. Energy Secretary Steve Chu ran LBL before his current job.