Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.08
Liaison Andrew D'Amico
Submission Date March 13, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Princeton University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
21,000,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
500 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Small town

Gross floor area of building space:
8,912,800 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
2,897,700 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
1,728,600 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
2,339,300 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.08
Coal 13.58
Geothermal ---
Hydro 0.08
Natural gas 57
Nuclear 22.15
Solar photovoltaic 1.09
Wind 3.27
Other (please specify and explain below) 2.74

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

In FY2014, Princeton also used solid waste, captured methane gas, and oil as sources of electricity.


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 99
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:

Princeton used #2 Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel. Usually, Princeton uses even less than 1% of this fuel annually, but its use increased in FY2014 due to an extremely cold winter.


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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