{"id":376,"date":"2012-03-22T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/about\/sustainability\/energy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:38:36","slug":"energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/energy\/","title":{"rendered":"More About Energy Conservation (archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2012\/03\/powerhouse-199x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"867\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/energy\/powerhouse-199x300\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2012\/03\/powerhouse-199x300.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"199,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"powerhouse-199&amp;#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Energy-efficiency measures allowed St. Olaf to save 6.91 million kWh in just 2008 alone.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2012\/03\/powerhouse-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2012\/03\/powerhouse-199x300.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-867\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/files\/2012\/03\/powerhouse-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Energy-efficiency measures allowed St. Olaf to save 6.91 million kWh in just 2008 alone.\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Energy-efficiency measures allowed St. Olaf to save 6.91 million kWh in just 2008 alone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Xcel Energy, a leading provider of energy in eight states, has recognized St. Olaf College for its efforts at improving energy efficiency. St. Olaf was included in Xcel&#8217;s &#8220;Top Ten&#8221; list for having saved 6.91 million kWh in one year and was ranked No. 1 in natural gas efficiency, with 417,840 therms saved.<\/li>\n<li>The college employs natural gas-fired steam, and recently installed a highly efficient (&gt;94%) boiler at the central heating plant, helping to increase year-round efficiency. One measure of successful energy conservation is the fact that St. Olaf College&#8217;s 2008 peak steam flow was equal to the 1988 peak steam flow, even though the college had added 600,000 square feet of new space over that time.<\/li>\n<li>Every re-roofing project at St. Olaf includes bringing insulation and vapor barriers up to and exceeding energy code. All recently purchased appliances are Energy Star-rated.<\/li>\n<li>St. Olaf is the first liberal arts college in the nation to construct a utility-grade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/news\/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&amp;id=3484\">wind turbine<\/a> for the sole purpose of providing energy to the campus (Carleton College was the first to construct a turbine, but the electricity it produces is sold to an energy company and added to the general power grid). St. Olaf College&#8217;s 1.65 megawatt self-generating wind turbine was constructed in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>News Stories<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/blog\/regents-hall-featured-in-the-worlds-greenest-buildings\/\">Regents Hall featured in <em>The World\u2019s Greenest Buildings<\/em> book<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/news\/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&amp;id=4813&amp;archivePage=9\"><i>U.S. News<\/i>\u00a0cites St. Olaf wind turbine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/news\/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&amp;id=4674&amp;archivePage=16\">St. Olaf named Xcel&#8217;s No. 2 &#8216;Efficiency Partner&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/news\/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&amp;id=4561&amp;archivePage=21\">Regents Hall earns prestigious Xcel award<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}