Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.84
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date June 2, 2015
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STARS v2.0

University of Minnesota, Morris
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
12.60 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
165 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Small town

Gross floor area of building space:
993,166 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
964,014 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
7,553 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
18,052 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
200,035 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.10
Coal 26
Geothermal ---
Hydro 0.50
Natural gas 0.10
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind 64
Other (please specify and explain below) 9.30

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

About 60% of campus electricity comes from wind. Other sources (solar PV, back-pressure steam turbine at biomass plant) contribute smaller percentages. Minnesota has a Renewable Energy Standard of 25% renewable energy by 2025. Our local electricity provider, also contributes to that goal. So, state policy is helping us increase our total renewable energy percentage beyond 60%. The mix from our power company in 2013 was: 14.4% wind, 61.6% coal, 1.1% hydro, 0.3% natural gas, 0.2% biomass, and 22.4% unassigned purchases. The unassigned purchased include nuclear and other sources.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 18
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 82
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:
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