Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.97
Liaison Tom Hartzell
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Calvin University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Jack Phillips
Mechanical Director
Physical Plant
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
259,863.57 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:
40.60 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
The campus has 3 renewable electricity devices. There is a solar roof that generates a quantifiable amount of electricity. The other 2 devices, solar panels and wind turbine do not produce enough electricity to be quantified on this scale and are used for classroom teaching.

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:
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:
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:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
FY 17-18 Solar_vJdft6Q.xls

 

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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 22
Geothermal ---
Hydro 3
Natural gas 36
Nuclear 9
Solar photovoltaic 4
Wind 4
Other (please specify and explain below) 22

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
In the other category: 10% oil 0.2% Market purchases 12% Pumped Storage This data comes from Consumers Energy, https://www.consumersenergy.com/community/sustainability/energy-mix Wind, Solar and Hydro are individual estimates from a 11% share of the market. Estimates are based on previous report.

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

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
See attached Excel sheet for solar power data / calculations. Information on solar panel power comes from Chuck Holwerda.

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