Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.58
Liaison Mary Ellen Mallia
Submission Date Jan. 15, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University at Albany
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
49,522,321 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
535 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Urban fringe of mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
5,806,849 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
5,357,508 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
561,325 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,984,331 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.50
Coal 4
Geothermal 0
Hydro 18
Natural gas 36
Nuclear 33
Solar photovoltaic 1.50
Wind 6
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

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

Oil is 1%
Diesel is used to test the generators in the life science building, science library and data center and if needed for emergency purposes. This accounts for less than 1% of our electricity needs.


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
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 99
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

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

Propane is 1%
Diesel is used to test the generators in the life science building, science library and data center and if needed for emergency purposes. This accounts for less than 1% of our heating needs.


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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