Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	64.57
Liaison	Sherri Mason
Submission Date	June 14, 2023

STARS v2.2

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
OP-5: Building Energy Efficiency

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	3.35 / 6.00	Tara Chrzanowski Energy Data Analyst Office of Physical Plant

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Part 1. Site energy use per unit of floor area

Performance year energy consumption

Electricity use, performance year (report kilowatt-hours):

	kWh	MMBtu
Imported electricity	18,614,207 Kilowatt-hours	63,511.67 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, non-combustion facilities/devices (e.g., renewable energy systems)	0 Kilowatt-hours	0 MMBtu

Stationary fuels and thermal energy, performance year (report MMBtu):

	MMBtu
Stationary fuels used on-site to generate electricity and/or thermal energy	61,102 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water	0 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, performance year:

124,613.67 MMBtu

Performance year building space

Gross floor area of building space, performance year:

1,382,893.40 Gross square feet

Floor area of energy intensive space, performance year:

	Floor area
Laboratory space	75,131.76 Square feet
Healthcare space	625.07 Square feet
Other energy intensive space	111,172.79 Square feet

EUI-adjusted floor area, performance year:

1,645,579.85 Gross square feet

Performance year heating and cooling degree days

Degree days, performance year:

	Degree days
Heating degree days	4,773 Degree-Days (°F)
Cooling degree days	810 Degree-Days (°F)

Total degree days, performance year:

5,583 Degree-Days (°F)

Performance period

Start and end dates of the performance year (or 3-year period):

	Start date	End date
Performance period	July 1, 2021	June 30, 2022

Metric used in scoring for Part 1

Total site energy consumption per unit of EUI-adjusted floor area per degree day, performance year:

13.56 Btu / GSF / Degree-Day (°F)

Part 2. Reduction in source energy use per unit of floor area

Baseline year energy consumption

STARS 2.2 requires electricity data in kilowatt-hours (kWh). If a baseline has already been established in a previous version of STARS and the institution wishes to continue using it, the electricity data must be re-entered in kWh. To convert existing electricity figures from MMBtu to kWh, simply multiply by 293.07107 MMBtu/kWh.

Electricity use, baseline year (report kWh):

	kWh	MMBtu
Imported electricity	20,522,365 Kilowatt-hours	70,022.31 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, non-combustion facilities/devices (e.g., renewable energy systems)	0 Kilowatt-hours	0 MMBtu

Stationary fuels and thermal energy, baseline year (report MMBtu):

	MMBtu
Stationary fuels used on-site to generate electricity and/or thermal energy	72,676 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water	0 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, baseline year:

142,698.31 MMBtu

Baseline year building space

Gross floor area of building space, baseline year:

1,369,180.40 Gross square feet

Baseline period

Start and end dates of the baseline year (or 3-year period):

	Start date	End date
Baseline period	July 1, 2018	June 30, 2019

A brief description of when and why the energy consumption baseline was adopted:

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College hired their first campus Sustainability Coordinator in January 2019. We have chosen FY 2018-2019 as our baseline year, therefore, so that changes and plans moving forward are judged based on the emergence of these efforts.

Source energy

Source-site ratio for imported electricity:

3.14

Total energy consumption per unit of floor area:

	Site energy	Source energy
Performance year	0.09 MMBtu per square foot	0.19 MMBtu per square foot
Baseline year	0.10 MMBtu per square foot	0.21 MMBtu per square foot

Metric used in scoring for Part 2

Percentage reduction in total source energy consumption per unit of floor area from baseline:

11.83

Optional Fields

Documentation to support the performance year energy consumption figures reported above:

Erie_FY22_Utility_Consumption.xlsx

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices in regard to energy efficiency:

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A brief description of energy use standards and controls employed by the institution:

Penn State has an Energy Conservation Policy (AD64). Set points are specifically addressed in the policy:
Interior Environment - Every effort will be made to maintain the occupied temperature in all University facilities at 70 degrees in the winter and 75 degrees in the summer. This excludes areas that currently are not heated or cooled and areas with special environmental needs.
-The temperature during low occupancy or unoccupied periods in all University facilities will be allowed to cool down to 60 degrees in the winter and warm up to 85 degrees in the summer. This excludes areas that currently are not heated or cooled and areas with special environmental needs.
-Employees and students with manual control of the equipment that heats or cools their space shall operate the equipment so that the least amount of energy is consumed (example, operate window air conditioning units only when the spaces are occupied).
https://www.opp.psu.edu/sustainability/energy

A brief description of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting and other energy-efficient lighting strategies employed by the institution:

The campus is continually working to convert all lighting to LED. At this time all external lighting had been converted to LED and about half of the internal lighting.

A brief description of passive solar heating, geothermal systems, and related strategies employed by the institution:

Almy and Ohio Residence Halls are heated/cooled through a geothermal system.

A brief description of co-generation employed by the institution:

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A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace energy-consuming appliances, equipment, and systems with high efficiency alternatives:

An energy audit was conducted during the AY 2021-22 in order to help assess energy consumption and create a list of projects to replace energy-consuming equipment. For example, during the summer 2023 a very old boiler and AC unit are being replaced to high efficiency alternatives.

Website URL where information about the institution’s energy conservation and efficiency program is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Please see the attached report from EnergyCAP for the electric and natural gas totals. I used the electric site-source value from Energy Star Portfolio Manager.

For the HDD and CDD: https://climate.met.psu.edu/data/state/degreedays.php?station=KERI

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