Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.11
Liaison Cindy Shea
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OP-8: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.17 / 7.00 Ray DuBose
Director
Energy Services
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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 :
52.07 MMBtu

Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated:
341.80 MMBtu

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 :
0 MMBtu

Option 4: Total RECs and other similar renewable energy products that the institution purchased during the performance year that are Green-e certified or meet the Green-e standard's technical requirements and are third party verified:
0 MMBtu

Option 5: Total electricity generated with co-generation technology using non-renewable fuel sources :
244,307 MMBtu

Total energy consumed during the performance year :
2,545,404 MMBtu

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

The Education Center at the Botanical Garden came on line in fall 2009 and has a photovoltaic array on the roof. It produced 52.07 mmbtus in FY 2010.


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

The 172 panel solar hot water system on Morrison Residence Hall provides hot water for building reheat and domestic hot water. The system produced 341.8 mmbtus in the 12 months ending September 2010.

A deep well geothermal energy system provides heating and cooling at the Botanical Garden Education Center.


A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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A brief description of RECs or other similar renewable energy products purchased during the previous year:
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A brief description of co-generation technologies deployed:

32 MW coal-fired cogeneration plant with fluidized bed combustion and flue gas scrubbers


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