March 5th Lab

Meet in the lobby of the Shair-Swenson-Watson building (next to the Davis building) at 1pm for a tour of the energy systems in this building

Miscellaneous tidbits of information:

  • Colby’s renewable energy credits (RECs) would be worth $250/MWh if the energy were produced in Massachusetts. Here in Maine, ours are worth around $24-$28 per MWh. We would expect a total of $55,000-$65,000 per year if we sold our solar RECs in the Massachusetts market (2,300 MWh). In contrast, we recently paid $0.49/MWh for 15,300 MWh worth of RECs (~$7500 for RECs to offset all campus purchased electricity).
  • Shair-Swenson-Watson (SSW) Solar Production (Excel worksheet)
  • Thermal comfort Survey developed for the Grossman Renovation and designed to meet the requirements of the LEED credit.
  • SSW energy systems snapshot
  • Recent energy use data from SSW (Excel worksheet)
  • Do we have sewer/water and trash/recycling data by building? If not, we may be able to get plumbing fixture counts and flow rates off the building construction drawings and we can do some calculations.
  • Climate Data for thermal and solar analysis:  Colby Quad_48Colby Quad_47Colby Quad_46Colby Quad_45Colby Quad_44Colby Quad_43Colby Quad_42