107 3. Facility-wide digitalisation: energy management information systems, streamlined data acquisition, data-driven building decisionmaking using predictive, automated, responsive capabilities powered by AI 4. Efficient infrastructure: savings and outcome-based energy efficiency programme, deferred maintenance resolution, infrastructure resiliency, electrification solutions, waste management, water conservation 5. Sustainable operations: continuous decarbonisation operations management plan, training or staffing future-ready infrastructure experts, sustainable life cycle management, condition-based predictive maintenance 6. Distributed energy sources: distributed energy strategy, on-site renewable energy generation and storage, grid interactive services, electric vehicle charging, advanced asset optimisation, demand response services 7. Renewable energy supply services: carbon offsets, renewable energy advisory and procurement, renewable finance, development and trading 8. Certify and recognise impact: industryleading certification facilitation, transparent and traceable decarbonisation dashboards, accounting and reporting, brand public relations and communications. This eight-step plan helped Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) become the first campus in Colorado, USA, to reach net-zero electricity with solar power. Johnson Controls installed a 23-acre solar farm with battery storage that supplies 12 million kilowatt hours of electricity, providing 100 per cent net solar production for the campus. With this microgrid solution, CSU-Pueblo has locked in its electricity costs for the next 25 years to become a greener, more independent and more resilient campus. Mark Reinbold is vice president of sustainable infrastructure at Johnson Controls
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