Annual Energy Reports to the Board of Trustees (all in PDF)
Monthly Utility Usage & Cost
Take a look at the historical usage and cost of the west campus utilities over the past decade. While domestic WATER & SEWER usage has remained relatively flat, both ELECTRIC and NATURAL GAS usage
has steadily increased in step with our campus growth. Please note
that more updated figures are now available in the latter pages of the
above Annual Energy Reports.
About $380 is spent each year per Full Year Equivalent Student. This
equates to 4% of full time student's tuition. (based on 15 credit
hours for two semesters) Cost per square foot are currently (in
FY2010) approximately $2.50 per square foot annually.
WE NEED YOUR HELP ! A significant amount of electricity is used during the night time and weekend hours. Looking at the following chart, you can see that the University maintains at least 2 megawatts of electrical consumption throughout evenings and weekends. (kW Demand Chart) Each of the spikes is one day. The spikes are grouped a weekly pattern of five high usage days and two weekend days.
Our summer electrical usage peaked at just over 7.5 Megawatts.
A significant portion of this off-peak usage comes from equipment
that is not turned off! Lights, computer monitors, computers,
printers, copy machines, etc... should all be turned off during the
evening to extend their operating life, save energy, and save on
pollution the resulting to our environment. To learn how to
automatically shut off your monitor and hard drive, take a look at the Green Computing Guide.
Auxiliary Department Utility Charges
Click here for auxiliary department usage and costs.