Expanding our energy centre
We increased our energy supply, flexibility and resilience to support our expanding campus
Over the past few years our campus has continued to grow, especially on campus east with the development of Anne Lister and David Kato colleges. As part of this we have needed to increase our energy supply, flexibility and resilience.
Expanding our current energy centre on Campus East allowed us to do this in the most efficient way possible, with the least impact on the local area. In addition, the project increased the resilience of the University as it separated the energy supply of our two campuses. This means that if we lose power to one, the other is less likely to be affected.
As a University we are committed to increasing our sustainability. We looked at a number of different options to increase our energy supply. The short term continued use of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) was deemed the most efficient method for delivering the required amount of energy.
We limited this proposed expansion to a level that will deliver what we need for the next ten years only, and hope that within that time we will be able to develop more sustainable methods of energy production longer term.