Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.68
Liaison John Gardner
Submission Date May 31, 2016
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A John Gardner
Sustainability Planning & Policy Analyst
Office of Sustainability
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Endowment size:
102,385,384 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
629.50 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Large city

Gross floor area of building space:
7,770,174 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
6,709,232 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
930,393 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
7,165 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,243,625 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.20
Coal 56.90
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1.10
Natural gas 14.10
Nuclear 25.40
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 2.30
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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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 0.10
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 99.90
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:

The School of Freshwater Sciences is, as of September 2014, heated in part by city steam from We Energies' downtown Valley Power Plant (VPP). The VPP converted two coal-fired boilers to natural gas (Unit 1 converted in November 2014, Unit 2 converted in November 2015). FY15 energy used for heating includes this portion of coal energy before conversion of Unit 1 and before conversion of Unit 2.


The School of Freshwater Sciences is, as of September 2014, heated in part by city steam from We Energies' downtown Valley Power Plant (VPP). The VPP converted two coal-fired boilers to natural gas (Unit 1 converted in November 2014, Unit 2 converted in November 2015). FY15 energy used for heating includes this portion of coal energy before conversion of Unit 1 and before conversion of Unit 2.

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