Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.22
Liaison Mary Ellen Mallia
Submission Date Dec. 21, 2018
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STARS v2.1

University at Albany
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.02 / 4.00 Indu Lnu
Energy Officer
Facilities Management
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
740,456 MMBtu

Option 1 

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:
212 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
62,197 kwh of solar energy is generated on-site on two different sites: one on the roof of the Social Science building and another on the roof of the Campus Center. We do not claim the environmental attributes.

Option 2 

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

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
none

Option 3 

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

None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
none

Option 4 

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:
3,134 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
918,500 kWh of national wind RECs were purchased during the performance year in association with two new building projects: Building 25 (home for the Department of Economics and Africana Studies) and the Campus Center expansion project.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://www.albany.edu/gogreen/4.renewable_energy.shtml

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 0
Coal 1
Geothermal 0
Hydro 42
Natural gas 7
Nuclear 41
Solar photovoltaic 2
Wind 6
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
1% is oil

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 0
Fuel oil 1
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 99
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Diesel is used to test the generators in the life science building, science library and data center and if needed for emergency purposes. This accounts for less than 1% of our heating needs.

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.45

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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