MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY GO GREEN! MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE GREEN SUBSTATION New green subsation to deliver consant 18 MW of power to new facility for rare isotope beams. THE CHALLENGE It takes a lot of energy to send high-powered beams at the speed of light. Jus ask Dr. Wolfgang Bauer of Michigan State University (MSU), where consruction of the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, otherwise known as the “FRIB,” is underway. The new facility will require a consant 18 MW of power at leas nine months out of the year. That consitutes 50% of average campus demand. When the Department of Energy awarded MSU the $730 million FRIB project in 2008, Dr . Bauer, University Disinguished Professor and Senior Consultant for the Ofce of the Executive V ice President for Adminisrative Services,

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