Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.92
Liaison Mat Thijssen
Submission Date Oct. 26, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Waterloo
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Chris Ford
Energy Manager
Plant Operations
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (electric and non-electric)

Total energy consumption, performance year:
1,084,963 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) 49,686 Kilowatt-hours 169.53 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:
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A brief description of the on-site renewable electricity generating facilities/devices:
Waterloo has a 60 kW solar PV installation on top of the Environment 3 building

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:
169.53 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.02

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 1
Coal ---
Geothermal ---
Hydro 25
Natural gas 7
Nuclear 60
Solar photovoltaic 1
Wind 8
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 3
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 97
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:
Data for energy source of electricity is taken from the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) from the most recent report for the Province of Ontario for 20172020: http://www.ieso.ca/power-data/supply-overview/transmission-connected-generation. These numbers reflect transmission connected generation within the province and do not account for embedded/distribution-connected energy managed by local distribution companies.
Energy used for heating buildings is an estimate. Some thermal load is provided by electrical equipment (Lights, servers, computers), but the majority is from natural gas. There are some electric heaters in air handling units across campus, in addition to private/individual space heaters. Therese are not metered and so there is no specific data on heating provided by these, but the vast majority is from natural gas.

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