"Get in Charge of Your Energy"
off-grid, solar powered, electric vehicle charging station on a mobile trailer
Joseph Ocampo takes the Green Island project to radio on CarTalk, to promote sustainability education for renewable energy and electric vehicles at UCSD. With help from Kurt Lund (SDRES, UCSD PE) and Charlie Johnson (SDRES, Wipomo), the Engineer’s for a Sustainable World take a victory lap for their grant awarded project for on-campus off-grid, solar powered, electric vehicle charging station on a mobile trailer.
The Engineer’s for a Sustainable World (ESW) chapter at UCSD was awarded a grant by SunEdison to build a “Green Island” off-grid electric vehicle and personal electronics charging station, to be used to by the students and staff, as part of a renewable energy education campaign to support UCSD’s campus green initiative.Charlie Johnson, on behalf of Wipomo, and as elected Board Member the San Diego Renewable Energy Society, was a grant writer for the awarded project.
Joseph Ocampo, the ESW student group project leader and Wipomo intern, worked as a liason between UCSD and for-profit corporations, to solicit additional contributions, in funding or in-kind expertise.
ESW UCSD SDRES Green Island Vehicle Charging