Located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) serves nearly 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students. A core tenet of the university’s mission is to make sustainable environmental, social and economic practices a way of life. Its Campus as a Living Lab for Sustainability initiative explores and applies sustainability concepts and theories to educate students and make the campus more sustainable.
Over his nine years at CSUDH, Kenneth Seeton, central plant manager and energy manager, has launched several projects designed to reduce energy consumption and costs, including LED lighting and HVAC upgrades. Seeton also initiated an energy storage strategy and participates in a demand response (DR) program. All these measures ease demand on the utility grid, helping to reduce the need to build new peaker plants.
