Overall Rating Platinum - expired
Overall Score 85.29
Liaison Tonie Miyamoto
Submission Date March 23, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Colorado State University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
284,495,309 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
8,809 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Dry

Locale:
Large town

Gross floor area of building space:
10,618,090 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
8,113,279 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
1,358,084 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
242,210 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
1,033,736 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
2,288,558 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 71.90
Geothermal 0
Hydro 16.10
Natural gas 5.20
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 1
Wind 6.80
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:

The university has a cogeneration turbine at the District Energy plant. The turbine generates up to 800 kW of electricity from steam energy that was once wasted.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 1
Coal 0
Electricity 5
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 95
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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