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“Swap shelves” make reusing items easy and convenient–saving money & supporting Stanford’s waste reduction goal.
A staple in almost every biology lab is an Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) freezer that stores samples at -80F. There are hundreds of these freezers around the university, and each one can use up to five times the energy of a standard residential refrigerator.
The Energy Retrofit Program (ERP) program offers rebates for labs to purchase high-efficiency compressor-based or liquid nitrogen freezers as either replacement or new purchases. View the table below to see maximum rebate amounts for different types of freezer models:


“Swap shelves” make reusing items easy and convenient–saving money & supporting Stanford’s waste reduction goal.
From stakeholders’ willingness for trade-offs to a green game plan, the student interns and fellows presented on their operational accomplishments from the year.

The university’s new purchasing guidelines help make the smarter and more sustainable option the easier one.