Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 39.11
Liaison Yaffa Grossman
Submission Date March 16, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Beloit College
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
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Endowment size:
130,761,615 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
107.50 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Large town

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Gross floor area of building space:
1,220,287 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
1,120,287 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
26,683 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
420,031 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 48
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 7
Nuclear 18
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 8
Other (please specify and explain below) 19

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
This information was provided to the college by Alliant Energy, the college's electricity provider. This break down is from the following website http://www.alliantenergy.com/AboutAlliantEnergy/CompanyInformation/OperationsandOrganization/030228. They state that 1% of their energy is Other and another 18% of purchased power is also defined as other which means the total Other energy usage for the college is 19%. We were not able to determine what this other 19% of energy usage includes.

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Endowment reporting is by fiscal year, not calendar year.

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