Energy Services
October 17, 2003, by Rachel Willis

Energy Services, a unit of Campus Services, is responsible for providing and distributing heating, cooling, and electricity to the University. It addition they provide steam for the sterilization of surgical instruments at UNC Hospitals.

When the ice storm of 2002 left most of the Piedmont without power and heat for more than a week in early December, thousands of University employees and students took refuge at the warm, well-lit University campus. The hospitals, research labs, and final exams continued on their normal schedules throughout a bitter cold week. At the request of the Red Cross, the University opened Woollen Gym as an area emergency shelter and community residents were invited to Lenoir Hall for free meals throughout the power outages.

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With Carolina blue hardhats, AMST 94 students visit the Joshua Gore Building for a presentation and tour of the Steam Cogeneration Facility on Cameron Avenue.

The University's ability to both function on a relatively normal schedule and provide critical health care, housing, and food services to the larger community in times of community crisis such as the ice storm or during Hurricane Fran in 1996, is because the University produces and distributes much of the energy required by the campus.