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Many students cringe when they pull utility bills out of the mailbox.
But imagine negotiating a new price for natural gas every month or paying a price for electricity determined in part by your highest rate of consumption. That's what the University of Kansas must do.
Imagine paying electric bills approaching $300,000 — every month. That's what KU paid last May, and the bills for natural gas, water and sewer service were on the same scale.
The University's utilities purchasing arrangements are a juggling act, complicated by deregulation, conservation programs and price fluctuations.
In recent years, deregulation has shaken up the natural gas market. Gas prices have fluctuated, and the new shop around it now is the big shop around for the best price.
"Since deregulation, you get more players into the picture," said Robert Porter, associate director of the physical plant at facilities operations. "We have a little more bargaining capability. We can spend more time to research and find a good price."
The University has an open-ended contract with the Kansas Public Service Co. for natural gas. Price is negotiated every month, said Ron Jones, vice-president of administration at the Lawrence KPS office. He said deregulation had resulted in price savings.
If the price of gas rises too much, or KPS can't supply enough gas, the University can switch its boilers over to burn fuel oil, Porter said. The University's 500,000-gallon oil storage tanks were full.
"We know at what point 42-cent oil, say, would be equal to gas," he said. "So if we can buy oil for 38 cents, obviously that cheaper."
"Fossil fuels are all going to be harder to come by someday, I'm sure."
That concern has led to attempts by KU to cut utilities usage. Although KU receives a single bill for total usage from each utility company, it is unclear whether the building, said Andy Hau, systems director for electrical engineering.
"If something looks wrong, they go back and check," he said. "It's amazing what a toilet running for two weeks can do to water use."
Porter said a program to control steam consumption had been under
way for about eight years. He said a general increase in energy consciousness and monitoring had also helped.
"Since 1973, when we had the big energy crunch, we have really trimmed a lot of fat out of utility services," he said. "It appears that we're about to come to where we were in 1973, even though the University has expanded."
Along with fluctuations in gas bills, KU faces a steady upward "ratcheting" in electricity rates.
Part of the University's electric bill is based on kilowatt-hours used. Haun said. Another part, the demand charge, is based on peak demand.
or peak demand.
Haun said the Kansas Power and Light Company measured demand each half-hour and based its demand charge rate on peak half-hours recorded in summer months. Once set, the demand charge portion of the bill cannot drop below 10 percent of the peak rate.
Water bills, too, are more complex than residential bills. Porter said the University got a rebate on some of its bills it used — but not on its water bill.
Because water used in evaporative cooling towers and for irrigation does enter the city's sewers, KU gets
50 cents deducted from its sewer bill for every 1,000 gallons of water that go through those systems.
University meter records show that the Watson Library cooler used 1,657,700 gallons of water in fiscal year which would yield a bale of reservoir $2.99.
According to facilities operations' analysis of utility expenditures, the University budgeted $5,709,343 to pay bills in taxis february 1988, which ended June 30. At the end of May, the most recent month for which complete figures are available, $4,895,984 had been spent.
Money spent on utilities comes from a line item appropriation made by the state legislature, said Theresa Klinkenberg, associate University for business affairs. Each Begetts initiative gets a utilities appropriation.
Klinkenberg said KU made utilities usage projections in January and February. If the projections indicate KU will run short of money, an increase in budgetation is requested. Projected surplus results in a reduced appropriation.
"In the past, they were letting us carry it over to use for energy conservation projects," she said. "But not in the past couple of years."
Commission votes 3-2 for 7th Street trafficway
by a Kansan reporter
After a two-year study, a four-month delay and a three-hour discussion, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 for a plan to alter traffic patterns on 7th Street at last night's meeting
The commission tabled the plan at
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