Overall Rating Platinum - expired
Overall Score 88.14
Liaison Tonie Miyamoto
Submission Date Dec. 6, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Colorado State University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.54 / 4.00 Carol Dollard
Energy Engineer
Facilities Management
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
1,699,614.60 MMBtu

Option 1 

Total clean and renewable electricity generated on site during the performance year and for which the institution retains or has retired the associated environmental attributes:
1,298 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
18 solar PV installations across all CSU campuses.

Option 2 

Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site, performance year:
0 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
A biomass boiler on CSU campus generates hot water and displaces natural gas use. This plant has a rating of 46 bhp. The plant was offline in FY19

Option 3 

Total clean and renewable electricity generated by off-site projects that the institution catalyzed and for which the institution retains or has retired the associated environmental attributes, performance year:
0 MMBtu

None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Option 4 

Total third-party certified RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products (including renewable electricity purchased through a utility-provided certified green power option) purchased during the performance year:
227,774.70 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Green E Recs; contracts are ongoing

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 0
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
The electricity factor used for GHG emissions accounting (as provided by local utilities) is 0.6238 kgCO2e/kWh

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity ---
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
13.48

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
On January 25, 2017 Dr. Tony Frank signed the Climate Reality Pledge. This will lead to CSU being powered by 100% renewable electricity by 2030. CSU was one of the first universities to take this pledge. In 2018, the local utilities made similar pledges for 100% RE; therefore, creating critical alignment for this important goal. CSU is the site host for 5,300kW (8.5M kWh/yr) solar plant on the foothills campus - one of the largest associated with a college/university campus. The RECs were sold to the local utility in order to finance the plant. CSU will be able to claim the REC's in 2030.

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