Georgetown announces partnership with ENGIE to meet sustainability goals April 29, 2021
Georgetown announced a partnership with ENGIE North America to upgrade the campus’s major utility, distribution, monitoring, and control systems. The partnership aims to help the university lower its energy use intensity by 35 percent and meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2030. The 50-year agreement will go into effect July 1.
Energy use intensity, or the energy usage per square foot per year, assesses the total amount of energy used by buildings divided by the total gross floor area of the building. ENGIE is a power generator, energy services company, and retail electricity supplier that works with universities and organizations across the country to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis.
Without staffing, Office of Sustainability faces uncertain future
The Office of Sustainability (OoS) is currently functionally on pause.
Normally run by two full-time staff and a team of three to five interns, the office has been a pillar of the Georgetown environmental community since it was founded in 2013. The departure and movement of the office’s permanent staff, however, leaves the office waiting for direction.
Audrey Stewart, who has led the office as its director since its founding, left the university at the end of January to spend more time with her young son, according to a statement she sent to the