Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 72.47
Liaison Daryl Pierson
Submission Date March 30, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Portland State University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Amanda Wolf
Program + Assessment Coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
296,433.50 MMBtu

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:
133.10 MMBtu

A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :

Lincoln Hall Solar PV Array installed in 2011. 234 panel array with peak capacity of 54kW, equivalent to about 2.9% of building’s energy demand. Dashboard: http://live.deckmonitoring.com/?id=psu_lincoln_hall. This is the only source counted in above figure.

“Living Laboratory” project in 2010 on Science Research & Teaching Center’s (SRTC) 3rd floor patio integrates green roof technology with PV at a 4.9 kW peak output. Monitoring of the various functions of green roofs and the output of the solar arrays will test the hypotheses that plants grow better with partial shade and solar panels perform better with a cooler under layer. Dashboard:http://solar.pdx.edu/home/visualizations/

PV Test Facility installed in 2008 at Cramer Hall includes five different types of solar arrays representing different technology and inverters with a 5 kW peak output. Annually, this could generate about 5,000 kWh, which is estimated to save $330 in annual utility costs. Dashboard: http://solar.pdx.edu/home/visualizations/

Campus Recreation Center uses excerise machines use ReRev technology to genderate electricty for the building.

Millar Library recently installed PV array, but it is not yet operational. The array has a peak capacity of 90kW.


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

A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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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

A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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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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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.35
Coal 33.65
Geothermal 0.12
Hydro 42.88
Natural gas 13.55
Nuclear 3.21
Solar photovoltaic 0.07
Wind 5.62
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.55

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:

petroleum .09%, landfill gases .14%, waste .16%, other .16%


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 11.56
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 3.35
Natural gas 79.92
Other (please specify and explain below) 5.16

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:

Other is co-gen from heat recover chiller


Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.04

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Performance year FY 2017


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