Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.41
Liaison Jeremy King
Submission Date March 23, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Denison University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
773,500,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
850 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Small town

Gross floor area of building space:
1,900,250 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
1,831,650 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
45,788 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
7,500 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
600,674 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.50
Coal 45.50
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1
Natural gas 16
Nuclear 34
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 2
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

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

Oil - 0.5%
Solar - less than 0.5%
Geothermal - less than 0.5%


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity 1
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 99
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

We have a central heating plant that operates on gas and heats the vast majority of our campus. Some building have separate heating systems that also operate on natural gas. In a few circumstances we heat smaller spaces with electric heat and/or geothermal heat.


We have a central heating plant that operates on gas and heats the vast majority of our campus. Some building have separate heating systems that also operate on natural gas. In a few circumstances we heat smaller spaces with electric heat and/or geothermal heat.

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