OF NOTE – EDUCATION Undated portrait of Shane Stennes, named chief sustainability officer at the University of Minnesota, effective May 9, 2022.

The plant uses a unique combined heat and power system that is helping reduce the University’s greenhouse gas emissions. Since it began operating in 2017, the plant has helped reduce around one-tenth ...

“Until recently, solar had not been cost effective for the campus, which is why we hadn’t implemented it except a few demonstration projects at a smaller scale,” said Shane Stennes, sustainability ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --The University of Minnesota wants to be carbon emission neutral by 2050 and took a step in that direction Wednesday by unveiling nine new solar energy sites. Right now, one ...

Shane Stennes, the U's director of sustainability, said the Twin Cities campus — the largest campus of the state's flagship school — wants to be an example and resource for other schools, ...

A new Xcel Energy program offering customers an opportunity to buy renewable energy directly from the utility will help power the Minneapolis Convention Center and the University of Minnesota in ...

University of Minnesota partners with Ameresco to install 2 megawatts of solar energy generation and advances goal to reduce emissions 50% by 2020.