# @aspensnowmass on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4A3CFrlqu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17229304-aspensnowmass-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-12-24T18:12:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Aspen Snowmass (@AspenSnowmass) — https://gondola.cc/AspenSnowmass

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Our first solar install definitely started a conversation, but we knew we had to go bigger to make a real impact. So, over the years, we’ve installed solar throughout our Valley, including at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School campus. Then this summer, we opened the Hub, a 150-bedroom housing building covered in solar that’s all-electric (the electric grid is 50% renewable now and will be 100% in 2030). 
“We didn’t do these projects because they were slam dunks or made us money,” says Auden Schendler, ASC senior vice president of sustainability. “We did them because we were trying to support a nascent industry and model possibility for others.”

Today, we continue to work with our utility to support clean energy. We’ve got solar and micro hydro, and spearheaded a coal methane plant project nearly a decade ago, which converts methane to electrical power for our local utility grid. We’ve come a long way since 2003, and we still have a long way to go. #75YearsOfAspenSnowmass

(Photos: Harrison Buck, Jeremy Swanson)
 
*Get tickets for our live 75th Anniversary show at the Wheeler Opera House this January 9-11, celebrating seven and a half decades of carving lines and creating possibilities. Link in bio!*

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