{"id":2265,"date":"2012-06-01T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2012-06-01T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:30:14","slug":"energy-and-water-use-changes-with-the-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2012\/06\/01\/energy-and-water-use-changes-with-the-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy and Water Use Changes with the Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is upon us! \u00a0The wildflowers are blooming and the (native) grasses are getting taller. \u00a0As seasons change so does the way we use energy and water. \u00a0Even though OSU strives to become a more efficient user of energy and water we still have a large footprint overall. \u00a0In the winter, OSU uses lots of electricity and steam to power baseline needs like lights and computers and everything we plug into the wall as well as to heat the indoor environment. \u00a0In the summer, we use less electricity and steam, but we use a lot more water to irrigate fields and to fuel chillers that cool buildings.\u00a0 Of course, in both seasons there are other variables that affect energy and water use, but the ones listed above are the most demanding.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of energy and water use for a single campus building: Valley Library used 386,000 gallons of water in June of 2011, but only 208,000 gallons of water in January of 2012. \u00a0Valley Library also used 499,000 lbs of steam in June of 2011 and 1,229,000 lbs of steam in January 2012. \u00a0As for electricity, Valley Library used 366,000 kWh in June of 2011 and 355,000 kWh. \u00a0Whether if we are using electricity, steam or water, it is all still considered energy. \u00a0It takes energy to make electricity and steam and lots of energy to also make clean, potable water. \u00a0It is important to mindful of energy and water use year round, rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2273 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2012\/06\/Fire1-300x227.gif\" alt=\"Fire\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is upon us! \u00a0The wildflowers are blooming and the (native) grasses are getting taller. \u00a0As seasons change so does the way we use energy and water. \u00a0Even though OSU strives to become a more efficient user of energy and water we still have a large footprint overall. \u00a0In the winter, OSU uses lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6583,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292103,607797,1292102],"tags":[356,622153,340],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-natural-features-and-landscaping","category-water","tag-energy","tag-landscape","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}