Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.63
Liaison Kelly Wellman
Submission Date Jan. 23, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Texas A&M University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

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

Total campus area:
5,500 Acres

IECC climate region:
Hot-Humid

Locale:
Mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
23,704,587 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
2,430,952 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
1,816,653 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
2,672,731 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas 53.80
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind ---
Other (please specify and explain below) 46.20

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

46.2% is the electric purchased from ERCOT:
Natural Gas: 40.5%
Coal: 37.2%
Nuclear: 11.6%
Wind 9.9%
Hydro, Biomass, Solar, others: 0.8%


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

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Texas A&M generates it's own electricity from a co-generation natural gas power plant. Additional energy is purchased from ERCOT as needed.


Texas A&M generates it's own electricity from a co-generation natural gas power plant. Additional energy is purchased from ERCOT as needed.

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