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Fairbanks Museum details decade of energy upgrades, opens Tang Science Annex
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Adam Kane, executive director of the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, told the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday that the museum completed a decade of energy-efficiency and resilience work and opened an $8 million Tang Science Annex funded with federal, state and private grants.
Adam Kane, executive director of the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, told the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday that the museum has spent the last decade pairing energy-efficiency work with climate-resilience projects and new construction.
The museum built a new Tang Science Annex and completed multiple energy upgrades because it could secure a patchwork of grants and private donations, Kane said. "We don't really have any money," he said, explaining the institution relied on outside funding to replace lighting with LEDs, add solar arrays, install heat pumps and build the new annex.
Kane summarized the museum's principal steps: in 2015 staff replaced roughly 400 fluorescent and incandescent fixtures with LEDs after a private donation and rebates from Efficiency Vermont; the museum installed a 10-kilowatt, net-metered…
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