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UMCP is a small city with
up to 50,000 staff, students, residents and visitors
occupying over 10,000,000 square feet of building space.
This vast area is heated and much of it is air conditioned.
Several thousand exterior security light poles and fixtures
illuminate roadways, walkways and buildings across 1,400
acres, and tens of thousands of light and plumbing fixtures
operate inside these buildings.
Each of us contributes to our
campus' energy bills
Paying for What You Use...
It all adds up!
Did you know we
pay higher rates for electricity you use on weekdays
than on weekends?
We are charged a higher kilowatt-hour
rate by the local power company for electric consumption
on weekdays during peak-demand periods 8 a.m. until
6 p.m.
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Here's what you'll pay in FY
2002 for energy just to live here...
$3,135,500���� Annually
...that's...
$1,081,100 for steam to make heat and hot water
$1,113,110 for electricity
$941,340 for water
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Here are a Few Things We're Doing....
We ask our housekeepers in
our high rise buildings to switch off all hallway lighting
during the day.
Our residence hall renovation program
in the 1980s refitted South Campus buildings with energy efficient
thermal insulation, fluorescent lighting, and energy efficient
windows.
Unlike 21 of our 44 residence hall buildings
that have their own generating equipment, 17 South Campus
halls and six New Leonardtown apartment buildings draw their
heat, hot water and air conditioning from three buildings
called Satellite Central Utilities
Buildings, or SCUBs.� Energy is generated more
efficiently and maintenance costs on the equipment are lowered
when SCUBs are used. Through an aggressive campus-wide lighting
retrofit initiative (combined with modest relamping programs
we began in the 1980s), all of our incandescent lights in
residence halls were converted to energy-efficient fluorescent
fixtures.� Even the old-style incandescent EXIT signs have
been converted to efficient LED fixtures.
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When no one pays attention to
how much energy is used and whether any of it can be saved,
every one pays.
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| In your room... |
- Turn it off when you're not in!!!�
Turn off room lights, lamps, PCs, TVs, radios and all other
equipment.
- Use a desk lamp with a fluorescent
bulb when studying.
- If you live in a building with air
conditioning, turn off the fan in the unit when no one is
in the room.� Okay, at a minimum, set it on low.�
- Definitely turn your room's heater
or air conditioner to low over weekends and during the semester
recesses when no one is here.
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| On your floor...
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Your Convector... |
- Conserve water by taking shorter
showers.� Where possible, adjust the water pressure
downward.
- Keep sink faucets and shower
fixtures from dripping and report those that do.
- Most
hallway lights in residence halls (except Centreville
Hall) can be switched off during daylight hours.
- Most
lights can be turned off in lounges and bathrooms
when the last person leaves since many of these spaces
have one light fixture on at all times for safety.
- Air conditioners in study rooms
and lounges can be turned off at night.� Leave them
in their Energy Conserve mode so they automatically
shut off when the desired temperature is reached.
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Your heat convector
has a control valve located under the front of the unit
that can be opened (counterclockwise) and closed (clockwise)
to alter the heat output.� Learn to regulate the heat
in your room using this valve, rather than opening and
closing the window. |
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| Water Conservation at the Shower Head� |
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In
response to the prolonged drought conditions in the
1999 summer, Maryland's Governor Parris Glendening issued
an executive order directing state agencies to conserve
water, both during the crisis that lasted almost three
months and through permanent modifications to various
state facility's utility systems.� An executive order
in 2002 from the governor directed state agencies to
achieve an overall 10% reduction in water consumption
in state buildings by the Year 2010.
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Campus conservation measures began in
1998-99 with the installation of mandated water conserving
shower heads, which reduced the rate of flow from between
4-6 gallons per minutes (gpm) to 2.5 gpm.� While many prefer
a "stronger flow" through shower heads, it is not
attainable where water conserving shower heads have been installed.
We are currently testing low-flow toilets
and urinals and various locations to look for the control
valve (called a flushometer) whose construction and maintenance
requirements fit best into our residential environment.�
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