Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.88
Liaison Kristina Hope
Submission Date Feb. 13, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Knox College
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
104,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
785 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Large town

Gross floor area of building space:
1,100,000 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
1,070,000 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
38,338 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
84,153 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
48,000 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 21
Coal 30
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 16
Nuclear 29
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 4

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

Starting in May of 2014, Green-E certified renewable energy certificates ensured that 100% of electrical power came from a mix of US-generated renewable sources, primarily biomass for the year of May 2014 - May 2015.


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

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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