making UNH the first

 In operation since 2006, the UNH Durham cogeneration plant brings the campus 85% of their electricity and heat. First the plant preserves waste heat that would be lost during the production of electricity and uses it to heat the campus’s building. Incredibly the plant would pay for itself within 20 years.

Later in 2009 UNH joined with Waste Management's Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise in Rochester and developed the ECOline which brings from purified methane gas.  The pipeline is almost 13 miles long. The ECOline would be paid by within 10 years.

UNH is the first university to have this much of their total energy be produced from recycled resources. It is also amazing that this can be said for a campus that is 5 million square feet.