Cincinnati, Ohio

This facility features the following green attributes:
Green Power

Testing and Evaluation Center

Total Facility Area: 36,101 gross square feet (GSF)
Estimated Personnel: 27
Energy Consumption: 10,062,845,240 Btu per year
Btu per GSF per Year: 278,741
Total Water Consumption: 13,833,726 gallons per year
Gallons per GSF per year: 383

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2007.

Description

EPA's Testing and Evaluation Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, conducts experimental research on new treatment technologies of water and hazardous waste for many National Risk Management Research Laboratory divisions.

Unique Environmental Features

Energy Conservation

Under a "Power Share" agreement with the local utility provider, the laboratory voluntarily reduces its electrical consumption through the utilization of a nighttime setback mode for its heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system, cutting its demand load in half.
An automated building management control system provides nighttime and weekend setback modes for its HVAC system, cutting its demand load in half.

Green Power

In October 2004, EPA extended its green power contract for 100 percent of the electricity consumption at all of the Agencies facilities in Cincinnati, including the Testing and Evaluation Center. EPA is purchasing more than 15 million kilowatt hours (kWh) worth of renewable energy certificates annually for three years under the contract extension. EPA originally began procuring green power for these facilities in 2001, and deliveries under the new contract will run through September 30, 2007. Community Energy, Inc. , a renewable energy marketing company, is supplying 778,000 kWh per year of wind power from a wind farm in Pennsylvania. ComEd , a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, is providing the remaining green power with landfill gas from a facility in Illinois.

For More Information

John Kappa (kappa.john@epa.gov)
U.S. EPA
26 W. Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Phone: (513) 569-7795
Fax: (513) 569-7545

Web Site: www.epa.gov/oarmcinc/tour5.htm