Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.68
Liaison Franklin Lebo
Submission Date Jan. 11, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Baldwin Wallace University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.08 / 4.00 Franklin Lebo
Assistant Professor of Sustainability
Sustainability
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
63,534.57 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:
1,195.48 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
This figure includes the solar renewable energy power generated from the two solar powered buildings including the Harding House for Sustainable Living (8.23mWh/year = ) and the Center for Innovation and Growth (CIG) (114.73mWh/year) which equals 391.47501 MMBtu along with the two Conservatory Buildings that generate an annual combined total of 804 MMBtu of geothermal power form 54 wells. (For more information on the Conservatory building upgrades, please see: https://www.bw.edu/news/2012/conservatory-geothermal-grant.) More buildings on campus are geothermal heated and cooled, but those figures were not captured for this report. We hope to ascertain those figures for BW's next STARS report as including them will greatly enhance our ratio of renewable energy usage.

Option 2 

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

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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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:
17.64 MMBtu

None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
BW Dining Services contracts with Emerson's Grind2Energy division that provides a 100% food composting (excluding sea shells) and energy generation grinder for all food waste generated by our main dining facility in the Strosacker Student Union. BW's Grind2Energy report breaking down our figures since we leased the grinder is attached below.

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:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
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Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://www.emerson.com/en-us/commercial-residential/grind2energy-food-waste-solution

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 ---
Coal ---
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas ---
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind ---
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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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
1.91

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Heather Dougherty, Business Development Lead of Grind2Energy for her assistance in preparing the information about our food grinder for this report.

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