Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Plant

The Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania has a heating plant for the campus, which uses mainly anthracite coal and some natural gas. The plant was built in the early 1950s, and the University is exploring plans to either upgrade the plant, replace it with natural gas and fuel oil boilers, or draw upon more alternative sources of energy, such as geothermal heat pumps, biofuels/biomass, and solar energy. The University has stated that greenhouse gas emissions is one of the factors that should be used to determine how the campus is heated and cooled in the future.

Electricity is supplied to the campus by FirstEnergy, whose energy portfolio is 56 percent coal and 28 percent nuclear.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Campus coal plants
 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * Opposition to existing coal plants
 * Coal
 * Coal and jobs
 * Coal-fired power plant capacity and generation
 * Coal phase-out
 * Coal plant conversion projects
 * Coal plants near residential areas

External resources

 * Anne C. Mulkern, "Colleges Are Battlegrounds for Coal Fight," Greenwire, October 14, 2009.
 * Campuses Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club, September 2009.
 * "DOE Announces Winners of Annual University Coal Research Grants," July 7, 2005.
 * American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment