Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.28
Liaison David Blodgett
Submission Date March 30, 2018
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Babson College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.10 / 4.00 Asheen Phansey
Director of Sustainability
President's Office
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
148,956.18 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:
38.60 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
Babson has a 12kW array on the roof of Park Manor West and we do not sell the RECs from the system. Generation data is not available; the information is estimated based on local capacity factor and system size. It is accounted for under the net electricity demand from the building.

Option 2 

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

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
Our fuel oil is BioHeat, with a small component of bio diesel. The MMBtu provided is based on the bio diesel component, not the overall value.

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:
3,579.41 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Through Babson's electrical utility provider, Wellesley Municipal Light Plant, Babson has a contract to provide 5% of its electricity from wind power generated at the Spruce Mountain Wind Farm in Maine. This is a premium over the grid mix provided by Wellesley Municipal Light Plant.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://www.babson.edu/about-babson/sustainability/green-campus/Pages/energy-greenhouse-gas.aspx

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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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 6.80
Coal 4.50
Geothermal 0
Hydro 6.40
Natural gas 43.20
Nuclear 33.30
Solar photovoltaic 0.30
Wind 1.80
Other (please specify and explain below) 3.70

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
eGrid specifies: 1.9% oil 1.7% (other fossil) 0.1% unknown

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 5.20
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 94.80
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Some campus buildings have air source heat pumps to provide supplementary heat, but this value is challenging to calculate.

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
2.51

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Total energy consumption includes purchased electricity, natural gas, and fuel oil for FY2017

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