Energy Management
Energy Efficiency at Texas Tech
It takes about 28 Million Dollars a year to illuminate, heat and cool the Texas Tech campus.
The required energy takes the form of electricity and natural gas, as well as steam and chilled
water from the Central Heating and Cooling Plants. Texas Tech Physical Plant tracks the use of
each of these utilities for every building on campus. As you might imagine, those are thousands of data points.
One way of managing all this data is to convert each utility into BTUs and then combine them
for the whole campus. By tracking how many KBTUs (thousand BTUs) are used for each square foot,
we get a measurable indication of how efficiently our campus is running. This KBTU/ft2 index is
called our EUI, Energy Use Index.
State Agency Energy Savings Program
Contact Us
Lon Mirll
Energy Manager
Room 111 Physical Plant
Phone - 806 - 742 - 3318
E-Mail