Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.20
Liaison Olivia Shehan
Submission Date Dec. 24, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Wellesley College
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
1,808,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
500 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Large town

Gross floor area of building space:
2,539,500 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
2,388,800 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
69,206 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
4,900 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
47,434 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
784,300 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0.05
Natural gas 92.90
Nuclear 2
Solar photovoltaic 0.01
Wind 5
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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 5
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 70
Other (please specify and explain below) 25

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

The 25% is from utilizing the "waste" heat of our Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP).


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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