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ESCANABA — Bay College has been working toward reducing energy costs and increasing sustainability for years, …

“The college has used recommendations from the 2001 audit to improve sustainability across campus in the past 11 years. Now, a recent 2012 audit has compared Bay College’s energy costs and consumption since 2001, and has determined a significant reduction in the college’s consumption, ranging anywhere from 17.6 to 59.1 percent less energy per square foot depending on the building.”

“We’ve gone from approximately 70 percent efficient boiler systems to 95 percent efficient boiler systems,”

“A substantial portion of it is probably credit to the fact that there’s time clocks and timing, and monitoring of equipment so we’re able to shut systems down when they’re not needed,”

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