UMASS Physical Plant Info [Energy Use/Providers]

This week, we did some research on the UMass Physical Plant. Below are some good places to find information online about the plant, and energy usage on campus.

Physical plant website is: http://www.umass.edu/physicalplant/resources/index.html

Electric meter readings: http://www.umass.edu/physicalplant/documents/MeterReadings.pdf
This outlines energy usage by building and shows where the electricity comes from (UMASS generation vs. Western Mass Electric Co). Currently, the University is buying approximately 40% of its electricity from Western Mass Electric (it pays 167% more for this versus producing its own).

Also, this is a good article on the UMASS green initiative

And the UMASS green page

Contact at the Physical Plant [Energy Usage]

Had a great conversation with Jason Burbank at the Phys Plant this morning. He is the Campus Energy Engineer and is very open to being helpful on this project. He directed me to the spreadsheets available on the Phys Plant web site linked here.

Turns out a company called Johnson Controls has already done an energy audit and is under contract to make energy usage improvements. I'll need to continue the conversation but Jason looks to be a great contact point for our project.