Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 76.21
Liaison Lindsey Kalkbrenner
Submission Date May 5, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Santa Clara University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.38 / 4.00 Kevin Jenkins
Climate Action and Energy Manager
Center for Sustainability
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
211,598.45 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:
336.26 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
1 mW PV on the roof of Pat Malley Fitness and Recreation Center, Leavey Event Center, and the Parking Structure. 50 kW PV on the roof of the Facilities building. 25 kW PV on the roof of St. Clare Residence Hall. 7 kW PV on the roof of the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center. 7.3 kW PV on roof of the 2007 Solar Decathlon house. 10.8 kW PV on the roof of the 2009 Solar Decathlon house. 10 kw wind turbine on the roof of the Facilities building.

Option 2 

Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site, performance year:
4,138.10 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
60-collector solar thermal system on the rooftop of Benson Memorial Center as well as solar thermal panels on the rooftops of several residence halls.

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:
68,485.66 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Santa Clara Green Power is a voluntary clean energy program offered by Silicon Valley Power (SVP) that gives customers to the ability to cover up to 100 percent of their electricity usage with renewable sources of power. SVP purchases renewable energy certificates from western wind facilities (15%) and solar electric facilities (85%) located in California.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://www.scu.edu/sustainability/operations/energy-climate/renewable/

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 2.30
Coal 8.80
Geothermal 6.30
Hydro 17.10
Natural gas 46.20
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 1.90
Wind 14.20
Other (please specify and explain below) 3.20

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Electricity from transactions that are not traceable to specific generation sources.

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

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:
34.48

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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