Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.18
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2015
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STARS v2.0

University of Massachusetts Amherst
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
272,087,452 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
1,463 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Large town

Gross floor area of building space:
12,239,033 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
1,360,282 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
68,362 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
1,427,346 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
4,006,022 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas ---
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind ---
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 ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas ---
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:

100% of all heating energy and chilled water is generated at the Central Heating Plant which uses natural gas, liquid natural gas, fuel oil #2, and ULSD fuel.

Approximately 73% of the campus electricity is generated at the Central Heating Plant. The other 27% comes from the ISO-New England Utility grid.


100% of all heating energy and chilled water is generated at the Central Heating Plant which uses natural gas, liquid natural gas, fuel oil #2, and ULSD fuel.

Approximately 73% of the campus electricity is generated at the Central Heating Plant. The other 27% comes from the ISO-New England Utility grid.

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