July 16, 2013: MIT and NSTAR Renew Campus Energy Efficiency Program
First Phase at MIT Reduced Electricity Use by 15 Percent
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and utility company NSTAR concluded the first phase of MIT Efficiency Forward — a multimillion-dollar pilot collaboration on energy-use reduction — and due to its success have signed a second agreement to renew the program through 2015. The first phase achieved the program’s goal to reduce 34 million kilowatt-hours of electricity between 2010 and 2012, representing a 15 percent reduction of electricity use on campus.
MIT and NSTAR are now designing a new portfolio of efficiency measures that have the goal of saving an additional 21 million kilowatt-hours annually. For this second phase, the program will also include thermal savings from the reduction of natural gas use on campus, with a goal to save 150,000 therms of natural gas annually over the next three years.