Campus Energy Operations

Situated on 8,180 acres, Stanford requires a significant amount of energy to support its academic mission and the research functions housed within more than 1,000 campus buildings. Efficiently managing energy supply and demand, as well as the corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is critical to the university’s future.

Climate change caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions may well be the greatest environmental and socioeconomic challenge and opportunity of our time. Stanford has accepted the challenge and embraced the opportunity to raise the bar in the use of innovative, efficient and renewable energy supplies to reduce the environmental impact of operating a research institution of this size.