{"id":3368,"date":"2023-06-30T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/green-nau\/?page_id=3368"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:47:00","slug":"maximize-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/green-nau\/climate-action-plan\/maximize-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximize Efficiency in NAU Facilities to Reduce Overall Energy Demand and Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Summary of high-level actions:<\/strong> Our goal is a 20% reduction in energy and water use through retro-commissioning, energy efficiency audits and upgrades, deep energy retrofit building renovations, enhanced energy management systems for peak shaving\/shifting, and passive cooling and lighting. These actions require immediate and continual investments in capacity, capital improvements, and system repairs. These actions are necessary to optimize building energy use to properly size and save resources on future district energy systems conversions and purchased electricity.<\/p>\n The Flagstaff Mountain Campus expends about $15M\/year in annual energy costs which equates to $0.65\/SF. University standards express means of achieving energy efficiency in new construction and are silent on means of achieving efficiency in the existing building stock.<\/p>\n Example of electricity cost per year from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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