Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.09
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Swarthmore College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.51 / 4.00 Hannah Ulloa
Climate Action Manager
Office of Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption, performance year:
143,145.26 MMBtu

Clean and renewable electricity (report kilowatt-hours):
kWh MMBtu
Imported electricity from certified/verified clean and renewable sources (i.e., bundled green power purchases) 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, clean and renewable sources (rights retained/retired) 56,940 Kilowatt-hours 194.28 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:

N/a


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

We have an onsite solar installation for charging electric vehicles called the Matchbox array (generated 3,000 kWh in 2021), a rooftop array on the Whittier Building (generated 15,120 kWh in 2021) and a rooftop array on the PPR apartments (generated 41,820 kWh in 2021).


Clean and renewable thermal energy (report MMBtu):
MMBtu
Clean and renewable stationary fuels used on-site to generate thermal energy 0 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water from certified/verified clean and renewable sources 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the clean and renewable stationary fuels:

N/a


A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:

N/a


Unbundled renewable energy products (report kWh):
kWh MMBtu
Purchased RECs, GOs, I-RECs or equivalent unbundled renewable energy products certified by a third party 15,799,126 Kilowatt-hours 53,906.62 MMBtu

A brief description of the unbundled renewable energy products:

RECs are Green-E certified 100% wind, purchased from Schneider Electric.


Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
54,100.90 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
37.79

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:
Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 0
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 100
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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

N/a


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil 7
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 93
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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

N/a


Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

This data was assembled by Jim Adams, Director of Sustainable Maintenance, Domenic Porrini, Asst. Director for Sustainable Energy Services, and Hannah Ulloa, Climate Action Manager.


This data was assembled by Jim Adams, Director of Sustainable Maintenance, Domenic Porrini, Asst. Director for Sustainable Energy Services, and Hannah Ulloa, Climate Action Manager.

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