Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 77.43
Liaison Elida Erickson
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of California, Santa Cruz
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.46 / 4.00 Ellen Vaughan
Water & Climate Action Manager
Sustainability Office
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Total energy consumption (electric and non-electric)

Total energy consumption, performance year:
605,715.46 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) 20,305,000 Kilowatt-hours 69,280.66 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, clean and renewable sources (rights retained/retired) 252,647 Kilowatt-hours 862.03 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:
The University of California Office of the President formed the UCOP Energy Services Unit (ESU). The ESU is a CalISO registered Energy Service Provider. The campus is on direct access and purchases generation from the UCOP ESU. The ESU commissioned the Five Points Solar Park, LLC a 70MW solar plant that the UC system retains the REC's to. The reported REC's are UCSC's share of that system and the ESU's portfolio of renewable energy across the state.

https://www.ucop.edu/energy-services/programs-initiatives/energy-procurement.html

A brief description of the on-site renewable electricity generating facilities/devices:
A 250KW system was installed on the McHenry Library roof in Dec. 2013.

https://physicalplant.ucsc.edu/energy-work-management/energy-management/renewable-energy/mchenry-pv-array.html

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 0 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:
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A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:
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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:
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Metrics used in scoring

Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
70,142.69 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
11.58

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:

Sierra magazine requests the following information from U.S. institutions that wish to share data with that organization:

Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 3
Coal 0
Geothermal 2
Hydro 29
Natural gas ---
Nuclear 44
Solar photovoltaic 12
Wind 9
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
PG&E's 2019 Power Mix

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 100
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:
MMBtu's for performance year are from purchased natural gas and electricity.

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