Penn State Intercom......February
20, 2003ering up
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Powering up
On-campus plant
works hard to keep
University Park warm
From the outside, the West Campus Steam Plant located on College Avenue looks like a brick class building. Its banks of tall paladium windows may fool passersby, but step inside and feel the heat. Boilers hiss and steam, furnaces flare and the turbines hum and thrum beneath your feet. The plant, built in 1929, has been in operation for about 74 years, using coal to feed the boilers that provide steam heat for most of the University Park campus.