Pomerantz Center
Energy Management
Facilities Management employs a comprehensive set of energy management tools to increase efficiency and productivity while reducing costs.
- Energy Projects
- Energy Conservation Initiatives
- Campus Energy Use Profile (electricity, steam, chilled water and CO2 usage by building)
- HVAC scheduling (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning energy conservation scheduling by building)
UI Energy Hawks
The UI Energy Hawks identify opportunities for energy efficiency improvements and reducing energy costs in general education funded buildings. The team draws its specialists from Facilities Management building maintenance, commissioning, energy controls, metering and engineering units.
Energy Control Center
Coming fall 2009, the Energy Control Center will serve as a centralized location for the monitoring, analysis, and efficient dispatching of utility systems. The Energy Control Center will provide live displays of energy usage and real-time predictions of energy consumption in all buildings for energy engineers and building occupants. Energy Control Center.
UI Energy Plan
This ambitious and money-saving plan provides strategies to use more renewable energy, increase energy efficiencies, encourage energy conservation, attain energy security, ensure systems reliability, and more.
UI Energy Conservation and Management Strategic Plan (UI Energy Plan)
Energy Curtailment
The University of Iowa participates in a voluntary Electrical Curtailment program through Mid American Energy. Energy Curtailment.
UI Carbon footprint
The oat hulls project and other efficiencies introduced at the UI Power Plant and elsewhere around campus have resulted in a cost savings of $825,000 and a reduction in 61,200 tons of CO2 emissions. CO2 Footprint