| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 48.87 |
| Liaison | Amy Parrish |
| Submission Date | July 16, 2021 |
Boise State University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.07 / 4.00 |
Brian
Entman Energy Manager Facilities, Operations and Maintenance |
Total energy consumption, performance year:
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) | 25,965 Kilowatt-hours | 88.59 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:
A nominal 24.7 kW photovoltaic array is installed on the roof of the Micron Business and Economics Building. The array consists of (76) nominal 325W panels oriented roughly east and west, tilted approximately 10 degrees up from horizontal.
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 | 6,509 MMBtu |
A brief description of the clean and renewable stationary fuels:
N/A.
A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:
The University contracts with the City of Boise to use district geothermal water as a heat source for eleven campus buildings. The City administers the nation’s largest geothermal district heating system. Geothermal water supplies heat to building hydronic loops via plate and frame heat exchangers. Generally the high-temperature resource is used directly, but one building has a “cascade” arrangement where low-temperature return water from an adjacent building supplies a water-source heat pump loop. Geothermal water is furnished as an interruptible resource so backup heat is required for each building.
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
Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:
Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
| Percentage of total electricity use (0-100) | |
| Biomass | 0.90 |
| Coal | 16.90 |
| Geothermal | 1.50 |
| Hydro | 48 |
| Natural gas | 9.40 |
| Nuclear | 0 |
| Solar photovoltaic | 3.60 |
| Wind | 10.50 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 9.10 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Idaho Power purchases a fraction of its electricity from other utilities on the wholesale market but does not disclose the makeup of this electricity on its website. Additionally, note that some of the renewables reported in this table have had their RECs sold to others by Idaho Power.
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 | 0 |
| Geothermal | 3.40 |
| Natural gas | 96.60 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 0 |
A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Note that some university-owned buildings have electric heating. A comprehensive accounting of which buildings are electrically heated does not exist at this time. The magnitude of electric heating energy is believed to be small relative to the University’s natural gas heating energy, and has been excluded from the table above.
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Total Energy Consumption from OP-5
Total Energy Consumption from OP-5
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