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Annual Energy Reports
to the Board of Trustees (all in PDF)
Fiscal Year 2002
Fiscal Year 2003
Fiscal
Year 2004
Fiscal Year 2005
Fiscal Year 2006
Fiscal Year 2007
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.
As Oakland University continues to grow, our utility usage
will grow as well. If you examine the
annual cost
per square foot & cost per full year equivalent (FYES)
student data, you can see that the unit costs had
remained relatively constant over the past decade until the
fall of 2000. A significant spike in the wholesale
natural gas prices during the winter of 2000-2001 was the
culprit.
About $390
is spent each year per Full Year Equivalent Student.
This
equates to 5% of full time student's tuition.
(based on 15 credit hours for two semesters) Cost per
square foot are currently around risen to $2.40 per square foot annually
This information is based upon Fiscal Year 2007 (or
July 2006 through June 2007).
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.
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