Indicator 13.5
Energy Use in State-Maintained Buildings, 1999-00 to 2006-07
A building's energy consumption per square foot (also known as energy intensity) varies greatly depending upon its functional use. For example, laboratories, data centers and hospitals are inherently more energy-intensive than classrooms and offices. UC buildings are typically designed for a variety of functional uses, including laboratories classrooms and offices.
The proportion of energy-intensive space on UC campuses has increased over the last 10 years, masking the progress that campuses have made in reducing the energy intensity of existing facilities. Because the available data do not normalize for functional use, weather or growth, it should be used for gross comparisons only.
Per the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices, the University has set a goal of reducing its growth-adjusted energy intensity to 1999 levels by 2014. However, it is difficult to precisely determine how close a campus is to meeting this goal with current tracking methods. Development of new tracking methods have been initiated and will be included in future reports.
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Source: Partnership for Performance (P4P), a consortium of all UC campuses.
kBTU is a measure of electric and natural gas energy usage. Data are self-reported by each campus. In future years, UC will extract data from the Purchased Utilities Database, which is currently under development. Data are for state-maintained and funded spaces only (i.e., excludes auxiliary and fee-supported space, such as parking, residential and medical facilities).
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.