The Facilities Services Utilities department serves over 24 million gross square feet (GSF) of building space on the University of Florida main campus through the production and/or distribution of various utilities including electricity, chilled water, steam and water as well as waste-water collection.

The data displayed on this website is collected through a monthly metering process managed by the Facilities Services Metering Team. Over 1500 meters are used to distribute the cost of campus utilities to the appropriate entities including Greek Housing, Food Service, UF Health and Education & General (E&G) buildings. These meters are comprised of approximately 850 electric meters, 300 chilled water and steam meters, and 400 water meters for the campus. Various metering scenarios exist and are used to compile a comprehensive measure of utilities usage on campus:

• One meter serving multiple buildings: In this case attribution of utilities costs is split between the buildings based on GSF and Building Classification
• Multiple meters in the same building: In this case one meter can be considered the “parent meter” meters. In these cases, the other meters, referred to as “child meters” are subtracted from the parent meter to create a virtual remainder.
• Virtual Fixed Meter: There are cases of buildings that have virtual fixed meters which estimates usage each month. This circumstance typically occurs in older buildings. Virtual fixed meters are often used for water service or certain electrical circumstances where lighting is billed to a different entity than the overall building usage.