Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.90
Liaison Paul Mathisen
Submission Date April 16, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
433,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
93 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
2,394,471 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
2,021,171 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
117,366 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
3,630 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
779,881 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 1.84
Coal 2
Geothermal 0
Hydro 9.28
Natural gas 40.92
Nuclear 29.92
Solar photovoltaic 0.89
Wind 1.70
Other (please specify and explain below) 11.29

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

According to the Direct Energy Power Disclosure Label, electricity was also generated in the following ways: Diesel (1.04%), Digester gas (0.03%), Efficient Resource (Maine) (0.53%), Fuel Cell (0.18%), Landfill Gas (0.61%), Municipal Solid Waste (1.28%), Oil (6.06%), Wood (1.56%)


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 3
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 97
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

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

The Power Plant and Prescott Street Garage are both heated with oil. This makes up less than 0.05% of total heating.


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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