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Survey says: Is green energy at OSU worth higher fees?

ASOSU works toward gaining student feedback on possibly converting energy sources

Eddie Kelley

Issue date: 10/17/06 Section: News
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Peter Hogan, Al Schacher and Aaron Vander Meulen, all electrical and computer engineering graduate students, demonstrate in the Motor System Resource Facility how the Wave Energy contactless Force Transmission Generator Buoy works to generate energy.
Media Credit: Tzu-Ying Chen
Peter Hogan, Al Schacher and Aaron Vander Meulen, all electrical and computer engineering graduate students, demonstrate in the Motor System Resource Facility how the Wave Energy contactless Force Transmission Generator Buoy works to generate energy.
The ASOSU Environmental Affairs Task Force has put out a survey in order to assess student interest in making OSU's campus more environmentally friendly.

The Green Energy Survey, available to students online, was created in order to allow students a voice in regard to what their student fees will support.

The goal of the survey is to find out whether or not students would be willing to pay an additional fee every term in order to convert the OSU campus to a more environmentally safe renewable energy source.

The survey was developed by Environmental Affairs Task Force Director Andrea Norris, an OSU student majoring in fisheries and wildlife science, in order to gauge student interest in the energy conversion and as a means to asses funding issues.

The survey, which opened Monday for responses, will be closing Friday, Nov. 4 - unless the goal of 1010 surveyed students is not reached, in which case the deadline will be extended.

ASOSU and the Environmental Affairs Task Force has determined that 1010 students would accurately represent the student body.

Besides gauging student interest in this project, the aim of the task force is to also gain student backing to make it a success.

The task force did not want to place another fee on students without first making sure that they were interested in the project the fee would be going toward.

The survey continues by asking how much students would be willing to pay, and based on the payment, the amount of OSU energy converted into renewable energy could be derived.

The plan to convert OSU to a greater percentage of renewable energy sources is an idea that has been discussed around campus for years.

The idea was brought up again by the Environmental Affairs Task Force at the beginning of this term.
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