Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.65
Liaison Kelly Nowicki
Submission Date May 20, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
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"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

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Endowment size:
19,700,000 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
128.50 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Mid-size city

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Gross floor area of building space:
2,798,100 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
2,797,200 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
327,500 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
33,600 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
469,300 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
850,000 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 2.70
Coal 36.10
Geothermal ---
Hydro 7.60
Natural gas 12.70
Nuclear 27.40
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind 13.10
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.40

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
This information was obtained According to information on Xcel's web site, "other" includes small amounts of power purchased "from a number of sources."

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 15
Electricity 0
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 85
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:
Electricity data are for 2013 and reflect data for the Upper Midwest. Useful web source: http://www.xcelenergy.com/staticfiles/xe/Regulatory/Regulatory%20PDFs/03-Preferred-Plan.pdf Energy used for heating is for FY2014 (July 1, 2013-Jun 30, 2014)

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