University of California, Santa Barbara
OP-9: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.06 / 4.00	Jordan Sager LEED Program Manager Physical Facilities

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Total energy consumption (all sources, transportation fuels excluded), performance year:

725,734.77 MMBtu

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Clean and renewable energy from the following sources::

	Performance Year
Option 1: Clean and renewable electricity generated on-site during the performance year and for which the institution retains or has retired the associated environmental attributes	1,496 MMBtu
Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site	0 MMBtu
Option 3: 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	0 MMBtu
Option 4: Purchased third-party certified RECs and similar renewable energy products (including renewable electricity purchased through a certified green power purchasing option)	10,254 MMBtu

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

UCSB owns nine installed on-site solar photovoltaic systems, ranging in size from 2 kW to 133 kW DC. The aggregate capacity of these systems is 212 kW DC.

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A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:

Several of the residence halls receive a portion of their hot water heating through distributed solar hot water heating systems.

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A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:

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A brief description of the RECs and/or similar renewable energy products:

UCSB purchased 3 Million kWh of green-e certified clean wind power RECs in 2012, which exceeded two percent of the University's consumed electricity.

Date Revised: Aug. 20, 2015

University of California, Santa Barbara requested that AASHE Staff correct a mistake in this reporting field for the reason specified below.

Previous Value: UCSB purchased 2.39 million kWh of green-e certified clean wind power RECs in 2010, which exceeded two percent of the University's consumed electricity.

Explanation: We made an error in the brief description of the RECs we reported that was brought to our attention by an anonymous individual submitting an inquiry.

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The website URL where information about the institution's renewable energy sources is available:

http://energy.ucsb.edu/

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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