Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.72
Liaison Greg Maginn
Submission Date Jan. 18, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

The Ohio State University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.33 / 4.00 John Rappleye
Utility Purchasing
Energy Services and Sustainability
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
4,847,084 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:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
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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:
396,973.66 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Ohio State University purchased a total of 111,639,695 kWh Wind Power and the accompanying Renewable Energy Certificates (REC’s) from the wind power producer. Additionally, 4,613,879 kWh of RECS were purchased through Green-E certified third party verified firms to fulfill the associated LEED credit requirements on 3 university building and construction projects. FY2017: Wind 111,639,695 RECs 4,613,879 Total 116,253,574 kWh = 396,673.66 MMBtu

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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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 ---
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
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Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic ---
Wind ---
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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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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:
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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
8.19

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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