Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.25
Liaison David Tedder
Submission Date Oct. 16, 2015
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University of Kentucky
OP-9: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Britney Thompson
Energy Engineer
Campus Utilities
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, transportation fuels excluded), performance year:
2,917,806 MMBtu

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 90.30 MMBtu
Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site 23 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) 0 MMBtu

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

One 26-kw solar PV array at the Marksbury Building was functional on the campus during CY2014. This facility has panels that feed electricity directly back into the building for consumption.


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

The Poundstone Regulatory Services facility has one set of eight solar-thermal collectors that serve to add heat to the domestic hot water for the facility.


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

none


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

none


The website URL where information about the institution's renewable energy sources is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

RGAN Solar PV is not included here, as it came online in early 2015.


RGAN Solar PV is not included here, as it came online in early 2015.

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