Large-Campus District Cooling: How university is meeting growing cooling needs using less energy

摘要

In 2000, The University of Texas at Austin (UT) was paying about $2 per million British thermal units of natural gas, its primary fuel. By September 2006, the cost had risen to more than $14; over the next two to three years, it averaged about $8. In less than a decade, UT's annual gas budget had gone from about $9 million to approximately $36 million.