The Central Utility Plant supplies electricity and heat to main campus buildings and residence halls.
Three high-pressure steam boilers feed steam through an underground distribution system to most of main campus for building heating and domestic hot water needs during the academic year and ‘heating season’. A 2000-kilowatt cogeneration engine supplies electricity to these same buildings year-round, and also uses the jacket water and exhaust from the cogeneration gas engine to supplement the steam and hot water systems.
Hours
The Central Utility Plant is staffed 24 hours a day by a licensed Plant Operator responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the plant.
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