Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 58.84
Liaison Paulina Szlachta
Submission Date May 6, 2024

STARS v2.2

St. Lawrence College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.07 / 4.00 Jadon Hook
Sustainability Officer
Facilities Management Services
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (electric and non-electric)

Total energy consumption, performance year:
85,093.20 MMBtu

Clean and renewable energy sources

Clean and renewable electricity

Clean and renewable electricity (report kilowatt-hours):
kWh MMBtu
Imported electricity from certified/verified clean and renewable sources (i.e., bundled green power purchases) 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, clean and renewable sources (rights retained/retired) 406,938 Kilowatt-hours 1,388.47 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:

n/a


A brief description of the on-site renewable electricity generating facilities/devices:

Our Kingston and Brockville Campuses has net-metered Solar PV Systems, we produce on-site and send this back to the grid. 



Updated as of 2023:
Brockville:100 kw FIT install
Kingston: 250 kw FIT install 
(install capactity) 


104,869 for Brockville FIT
212,069 for Kingston FIT

On-site capcacity and used is 90000 kwh estimate (net metered on-site soalr production)

Can be verified thourgh local distribution system (Utilities Kingston and Hydro One) payments. 


Clean and renewable thermal energy

Clean and renewable thermal energy (report MMBtu):
MMBtu
Clean and renewable stationary fuels used on-site to generate thermal energy 191.07 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water from certified/verified clean and renewable sources 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the clean and renewable stationary fuels:

Distributed geothermal heat pumps provide terminal heating and cooling to o new 80,000 sq ft. Student Life Centre. 

January 2023-December 2023: 56141 kwh of energy to produce. 

If heat pumps are not eligible for this, please remove/disregard. 


A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:

Internal submetering is used to verfiy. 


Unbundled renewable energy products

Unbundled renewable energy products (report kWh):
kWh MMBtu
Purchased RECs, GOs, I-RECs or equivalent unbundled renewable energy products certified by a third party 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the unbundled renewable energy products:

n/a


Metrics used in scoring

Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
1,579.54 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
1.86

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:
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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 22.10
Natural gas 23.80
Nuclear 39.80
Solar photovoltaic 0.80
Wind 13.50
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas ---
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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