Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

Carnegie Mellon University
SD-10: Energy Use by Type

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Martin Altschul
Director of Strategic Facilities Initiatives of FMCS
Facilities Management Services
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The percentage of total electricity use from coal.:
0

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The percentage of total electricity use from wind.:
100

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The percentage of total electricity use from biomass.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from natural gas.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from solar PV.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from geothermal.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from nuclear.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from hydro.:
0

None
The percentage of total electricity use from other.:
0

None
Provide a brief description.:
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The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from coal.:
0

None
The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from biomass.:
0

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The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from electricity.:
0.50

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The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from natural gas.:
99.50

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The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from geothermal.:
0

None
The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from fuel oil.:
0

None
The percentage of total energy used for heating buildings from other.:
0

None
Provide a brief description.:
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If cogeneration, please explain.:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Carnegie Mellon purchases Green-E RECs from wind to offset 100% of the electricity used on campus. We are in the RCFW region. If the question applies to source without regard to RECs, please refer to RCFW published information.

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