Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.25
Liaison David Tedder
Submission Date Oct. 16, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Kentucky
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
957,784,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
812 Acres
+ Date Revised: Nov. 3, 2015

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Large city

Gross floor area of building space:
19,930,190 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
12,411,421 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
2,229,643 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
3,954,741 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
121,395 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
2,681,336 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 95.70
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas 4.30
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind ---
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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

We have 75KW of deployed solar pv but it does not generate a significant portion of our electricity.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 16
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 84
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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

Two of our residence halls (172K GSF) are heated and cooled with a ground source geothermal system. The system has 108 boreholes, 500 feet deep with 317.25 Tons of Connected Load (~3,807,000 BTU).


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