- Your billing period may not start on Feb. 1 and go to Feb. 28. It is acceptable to use a different period as long as you report the exact number of days and it corresponds generally to February and is similar to monthly billing periods in past years. You probably will want to coordinate with Facilities so they can choose when to start the billing period or at least you know when they will be measuring and can coordinate actions to that period.
- Some Facilities departments may have trouble accurately reporting all this data. Please walk through the process step by step beforehand to make sure every item is clear and try to get data in as early as possible – if possible, submit baseline data before the end of Fall Semester.
- BTU are often reported in thousands or millions (10^3 or 10^6). Please make sure you are using the right number of zeros.
Natural gas:
1 MCF (thousand cubic feet) = 10 CCF (hundred cubic feet) = 10 therms = 1,000,000 BTU
Fuel oil #6: 1 gallon = 150,000 BTU
Fuel oil #2: 1 gallon = 138,000 BTU
Conversion factor for combined competition (automatically calculated using this factor): 1 MCF of natural gas (1 million BTU) burned to produce electricity in a conventional natural gas plant yields 92.53 kWh. This is calculated using the Department of Energy heat rate estimate of 10,807 BTU / kWh for conventional natural gas plants (the factor we use) as found in: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/assumption/pdf/electricity.pdf#page=3
