Utilities and Energy Services Initiatives and Improvements
Significant consumption and cost reduction between FY02 to FY15
- 43% reduction in energy consumption per gross square foot
- Corresponding reduction in emissions and GHG footprint
- $200 million in energy cost avoidance
- Increased percent of solid waste diverted to recycled material from less than 10% to more than 65%
Upgraded Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Generation
- $73.25 million project – major systems fully operational in August 2011
- Additional reduction in energy consumption, GHG emissions, and operating cost
- $10 million DOE grant awarded to TAMU (reduced university funding requirement)
- Energy Stewardship Program (ESP)
- Utilities and Energy Master Plan
- Awareness, Education, Outreach & Engagement
- Utility Production/Distribution Optimization
- Comprehensive Building Automation Management
- Smart Energy Campus Initiative (SECI)
- Utility Metering and Data Management
- Building Energy Efficiency Optimization
- Building System Retro-Commissioning
- Environmental Benefit and GHG Reduction
- Server Room Consolidation/Virtualization
Utilities and Energy Management (UES) Master Plan
- Define utility infrastructure requirements and develop recommended implementation plan
- Utility production and distribution system optimization
- Building automation and HVAC system optimization
- Update and establish design standards for new buildings and major renovations
- Perform energy consumption, financial, and environmental impact analyses
- Recommend new opportunities to leverage technology and academic partnering
Utility infrastructure capacity, reliability and efficiency upgrades since 2002
- $200 million in utility infrastructure capital improvements
- Connected additional 3.5 million gross square feet into utility infrastructure
- 1,500 revenue-quality meters installed in 500 buildings
- Installed 11 new high-efficiency chillers (25,000 tons of additional capacity)
- Installed 15 new high-efficiency boilers (83.5 mmBtu/hr of additional capacity)
- Major upgrade of utility plant monitoring and control system (Emerson Ovation)
- Numerous cooling tower, pumping, and auxiliary system upgrades
- Significant improvement in capacity, safety, reliability, and efficiency of utility/energy services
Improved building automation and control
- $15 million HVAC control and lighting upgrades being installed in 24 facilities in 2011
- 120 facilities on Siemens building automation system – one of the world’s largest systems
- Precise control of environmentally sensitive research labs and other spaces
- UES assumed additional responsibility in 2011 for comprehensive management of all building automation and environmental control – to raise standards and improve customer service
August 2016