Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.47
Liaison Kara Holmstrom
Submission Date March 3, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Luther College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.54 / 4.00 Jay Uthoff
Director of Facilities
Facilities Management
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
143,730 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:
387 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
We purchase through a third party power purchase agreement the electricity from an 820 KW array.

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:
11,772 MMBtu

None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
Luther College retains the environmental attributes from a single turbine project owned by Luther College Wind Energy Project, LLC., a company wholly owned by Luther College.

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:
7,065 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
We purchase the attributes from a local single turbine project owned by Windvision, LLC.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://www.luther.edu/sustainability/energy-climate/renewable/

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 74
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas 4
Nuclear 18
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind 4
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Electricity use by source based on Alliant Energy fuel mix from 2012. This does not take into account Luther's own renewable energy production.

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity 3
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 97
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:
13.38

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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