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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:14 PM CDT
EIU to add monitors
to energy center pact

Staff Report

CHARLESTON — The Eastern Illinois University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Saturday to consider revisions for the planned Renewable Energy Center’s estimated energy savings.

The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Old Main administration building, adjacent to where entrants will be lining up on Seventh Street for the homecoming parade at 9:30 a.m. The board members will take part in the parade.

A proposed revision to a contract with Honeywell International, Inc. of Arlington Heights is on the agenda. The contract is authorized to not exceed $88 million.

EIU interim Vice President for Business Affairs the contract that the board approved in June did not spell out monitoring and verification measures, although these measures are part of the project’s budget projections He described the absence of the measures as a clerical mistake.

Honeywell is slated to provide construction and supervision services for the planned Renewable Energy Center off the northwest corner of Illinois Route 130 and Edgar Drive, as well as other campus conservation measures. The new plant would burn nontreated wood chips and replace EIU’s circa-1925 coal-fired power plant.

The contract’s support costs include the ongoing monitoring of the performance and verification of the energy and operational costs savings generated by each energy conservation measure. The project is designed to be self-funded by energy savings over a period not to exceed 20 years from the date of completion of the measures.

Honeywell guarantees that EIU will attain annual energy savings or operational cost savings equal to or greater than the annual cost of financing the project, and the contract requires them to reimburse EIU for deficits in these savings.

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Raptor wrote on Oct 15, 2009 10:39 AM:

" It is very difficult to believe that burning wood chips is a good plan.

The existing coal facility is worn out but the technology has improved considerably. No doubt that has been taken into account.

It just doesn't make sense. I will attend the meeting. "