2025 Annual Shutdowns

The 2025  Annual Utility Shutdown for Assessment and Repair will occur Saturday, May 410th  through Saturday May 17th.   The central steam plant will be shut down and there will be selective power outages throughout the campus.  Please review the Steam Shutdown and Electrical Outages spreadsheets for your particular building. 

Contact Ms. Lynn Gray, Grayl4@rpi.edu  with questions or concerns about the utility interruptions.

This work is done on the main Rensselaer campus annually in order to perform critical infrastructure preventative maintenance.  The Physical Plant works closely with the Registrar’s Office, Summer Arch, Summer at Rensselaer and Rensselaer’s Conference Services to minimize the impact to our students.  By communicating the outage schedule well in advance with our clients we strive to minimize the impact to our researchers, faculty, staff and visitors.

There are electrical outages necessary to exercise electrical systems distribution feeders.  They are “short term outages” lasting between 5 and 120 minutes.  Additional electrical systems preventative maintenance may be done subject to funding availability.  If approved this work will cause outages in addition to the distribution feeder switching.