Steam, District

• Primarily used for heating
  
• Purchased from Trigen http://www.trigen.com/
  
  • 2600 Christian Street Philadelphia, PA 19146
    
  • Combustion Turbine Production; creates steam and electricity from natural gas or oil boilers
    
  • Drexel, Penn, and other surrounding places
    
• Drexel use
  
  • Last year '07 - 76,000 Mlbs (thousand pounds) $2.3 million
    
  • Average use per year 80,000 Mlbs
    

Electricity

• Purchased from PECO
  
• Drexel use
  
  • Last year '07 - 53 Million KWH $4.5 million
    
  • Average use per year 50 Million KWH
    

Water

• Drexel Use
  
  • Last year '07 - 133,000 ccf (hundred cubic feet) $736,000 approx 1 million gallons
    
  • Charitable water rate for non-profit organizations
    

Gas

• Purchased from PGW
  
• Drexel Use
  
  • Primarily used for heating and cooking in the Frats
    
  • Also for cooking in Creese, Cafeteria, and Academic Bistro
    
  • Last year '07 - 259,000 ccf (hundred cubic feet) $574,000
    

Oil

• Drexel Use
  
  • 1 or 2 Frats use for heating
    
  • Available to be used in one dorm but not in use
    

Drexel Energy Information Contacts

• Bill Taylor, Senior Plant Engineer
  
  • Manages Drexel energy and organizes energy budget
    
• Paul Linderman, Budget Manager
  
  • Organizes facilities budget and submits it higher up