Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.29
Liaison Jennifer Andrews
Submission Date Aug. 2, 2011
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.0

University of New Hampshire
OP-5: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.94 / 14.00 Brett Pasinella
Program Coordinator: Biodiversity Education Initiative and Climate Education Initiative
University Office of Sustainaility
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Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, 2005 :
62,779 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Off-site, institution-catalyzed carbon offsets generated, 2005:
2,276.30 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Third-party verified carbon offsets purchased, 2005:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

On-campus residents, 2005:
6,247

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
7,362

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
2,470

Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, performance year :
54,809.20 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Off-site, institution-catalyzed offsets generated, performance year:
2,267.70 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

Carbon offsets purchased, performance year:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

On-campus residents, performance year:
7,349

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
7,551

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
2,572

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

UNH SELLS REC's off our EcoLine landfill gas pipeline into our cogeneration plan. We use the funds to finance the EcoLine project and to reinvest in our revolving energy efficiency fund on campus. As a result, we cannot claim all of the greenhouse emissions reductions from our production and use on campus of renewable energy as someone else is "buying" this right. In the end, though, UNH is reducing emissions, helping others to do so, and our state and region meet its renewable energy and climate change goals.

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/climate_ed/cogen_landfillgas.html

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/climate_ed/recs.html


Data source(s) and notes about the submission

UNH SELLS REC's off our EcoLine landfill gas pipeline into our cogeneration plan. We use the funds to finance the EcoLine project and to reinvest in our revolving energy efficiency fund on campus. As a result, we cannot claim all of the greenhouse emissions reductions from our production and use on campus of renewable energy as someone else is "buying" this right. In the end, though, UNH is reducing emissions, helping others to do so, and our state and region meet its renewable energy and climate change goals.

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/climate_ed/cogen_landfillgas.html

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/climate_ed/recs.html

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