| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 70.76 |
| Liaison | Richard Johnson |
| Submission Date | Oct. 13, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Rice University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.13 / 4.00 |
Richard
Johnson Director of Sustainability Facilities Engineering and Planning |
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
844,453.87
MMBtu
Option 1
411.87
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
This is from the solar array on top of the south wing of Jones College for the year 2015.
Option 2
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
We do not meter the energy produced by the on-campus geothermal system.
Option 3
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Option 4
26,205
MMBtu
A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Rice directly purchased 7,686,000 kwh (or 26,205 MMbtus) of solar-sourced electricity via MP2 Energy from the First Solar Barilla project in Pecos County, Texas in 2016. Rice purchased a similar amount in 2015 as well.
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 |
| Coal | 26.75 |
| Geothermal | 0 |
| Hydro | 0.28 |
| Natural gas | 40.61 |
| Nuclear | 11.14 |
| Solar photovoltaic | 7.16 |
| Wind | 14.06 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 0 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Rice uses a small amount of geothermal on campus that is not metered. The above figures were derived from using the 2016 ERCOT fuel mix, and applying those percentages to the portion of Rice electricity that was not either directly purchased from a solar source or generated by an on-campus solar array.
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 | --- |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | --- |
A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Most heat on campus comes from a district steam system, and the steam is created in boilers from natural gas, or recovered from the operations of natural gas fired cogeneration turbines in the form of waste heat. We do not have an exact percentage share of heat from electric, heat from natural gas, and heat from recovered waste heat.
Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
3.15
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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