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Campus Services

Energy and Sustainability

Energy & Sustainability is comprised of three interactive teams that work together to achieve our obligations and seize opportunities to reduce our environmental footprint while providing vital utilities services to the Ithaca campus.

Campus Sustainability Office
Empowers, equips, and engages our diverse partners to catalyze a sustainable campus transformation.

Energy Management
Conserving energy, load forecasting, trending, optimizing supply, reducing demand, metering...

Utilities Distribution and Production
Infrastructure: producing and distributing heat, cooling, electricity, water...

Events Happening Now:

Leaving campus for a break?: Before leaving campus for winter or spring break, and other holidays throughout the year, follow these simple tips to save energy in your office, common areas, labs, residential rooms and spaces.

Annual Steam Shutdown - Tuesday, May 31 to Thursday, June 2, 2022.  Steam shutdown of campus heat and hot water to conduct vital maintenance on Cornell's utility plants and distribution system.

underground steam pipe lines
Steam piping construction project

NEWS:

Cornell University Borehole Observatory open house held on November 9

Answering questions at CU Bore Hole Observatory open house
Open house at bore hole observatory

Cornell hydroplant to provide another 40 years of renewable power

Cornell hydroplant licensed for another 40 years
Cornell hydroplant open house

2021 Annual  Water Quality Report is available to download.

2020 Energy Fast Facts

​ Energy Fast Facts snapshot [Click and drag to move] ​

provide a great one page snapshot of the present energy production, consumption, emissions associated with the central energy plants