Energy Profile

A major goal of Facilities & Construction Management is to reduce electricity consumption throughout New York University. The graphs listed here provide energy consumption data for the top electricity consumrers amongst NYU's entire building portfolio.

Who should be looking and what’s available?

Anyone interested in energy consumption and conservation can view the electricity consumption graphs here to see monthly consumption as well as consumption patterns. One of F&CM’s major goals is to reduce electricity consumption throughout NYU. These graphs can be used to clearly illustrate and justify savings after implementation of major consumption reduction initiatives. Additionally, experience has shown that just sharing consumption data with building occupants helps reduce building energy consumption.

Monthly data is available beginning in September, 2004, through the current month, for 27 different buildings, including 16 dorms and 11 academic facilities.

Note 2: Why is the cooling degree day average and variance shown?
Cooling degree days is an indicator of how hot a time period was. In general the more cooling degree days there are, the more electricity will be needed to cool a building that uses electricity for cooling. When looking at data over different fiscal years it is important to keep the weather variations in mind and know that weather impacts consumption and some increases or decreases in consumption are partially due to weather and chance.

Note 3: The general target for FY 2008 consumption across all buildings is a 5% reduction from FY 07 consumption. If FY 07 consumption was unusually low or high due to unique conditions in a particular building then the FY 2008 target shown will not be a good objective to try and meet for that building.

Please select one of the building options below to look at the consumption graphs.

• Academic & Administrative Buildings
• Student Housing
• Faculty Housing
• Top Consumers