At International District Energy Association’s 2023 CampusEnergy earlier this year in Grapevine, Texas, universities representing a wide spectrum of US higher education venues contributed to a panel discussion on the particulars of their net-zero ambitions.
Tom Nyquist, director of engineering at Princeton University, opened the discussion, noting his university’s net zero carbon goal first took form in 2016 and expressly took carbon offsets off the table.