| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 73.91 |
| Liaison | Daryl Pierson |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Portland State University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
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 :
275,791
MMBtu
Option 1
107
MMBtu
None
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 exercise machines use ReRev technology to generate electricity for the building.
Millar Library recently installed PV array, but it is not yet operational. The array has a peak capacity of 86kW.
Option 2
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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Option 3
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Option 4
0
MMBtu
A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
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Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Sierra magazine requests the following information from U.S. institutions that wish to share data with that organization:
| Percentage of total electricity use (0-100) | |
| Biomass | 0.38 |
| Coal | 31.89 |
| Geothermal | 0.12 |
| Hydro | 40.47 |
| Natural gas | 16.58 |
| Nuclear | 3.25 |
| Solar photovoltaic | 0.27 |
| Wind | 6.49 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 0.55 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Biogas .12% petroleum .08%, landfill gases .06%, waste .10%, other .19%
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 2018
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