This section performs a number of functions including:
- Load forecasting and energy use trending for budgeting, infrastructure planning, new building and building renovation projects,
- Assisting Utilities administration and plant managers with optimizing energy production efficiency and procuring lower cost energy supplies,
- Championing methods and projects to minimize energy demand and use in campus buildings and central plants,
- Heading campus efforts to cost effectively strive toward a Kyoto Treaty compliance goal for Cornell,
- Insuring utilities metering integrity,
- Assisting with utilities billing (reviewing bills, answering customer billing inquiries),
- Weather forecasting for fuel procurement, and weather data collection in support of environmental permit management,
- Assisting the electrical distribution engineer in demand forecasting and limitation,
- Conducting energy audits and leading efforts to conserve energy and reduce or contain energy-related costs,
- Assessing the potential of new energy efficiency technologies, and encouraging the use of promising new equipment by the University community,
- Maintaining contact with and cooperating with student and faculty groups interested in energy conservation,
- Engineering and planning for all of the central plants,
- Project and construction management of central utility plant renovation, maintenance and expansion capital projects,
- Development of university design and construction standards related to utilities connections and usage on campus, and review of new facility designs.
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Staff...
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ManagerAudrey Lowes
Administrative AideMichael Boggs
Energy ManagerStacey Edwards
Plant EngineerTim Peer
Sr. Utilities EngineerLou Damiani
Project CoordinatorVicki Davis
Project Coordinator
