Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.78
Liaison Bushra Al Jaberi
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Sharjah
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (electric and non-electric)

Total energy consumption, performance year:
1,055,106.55 MMBtu

Clean and renewable energy sources

Clean and renewable electricity

Clean and renewable electricity (report kilowatt-hours):
kWh MMBtu
Imported electricity from certified/verified clean and renewable sources (i.e., bundled green power purchases) 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, clean and renewable sources (rights retained/retired) 28,586.15 Kilowatt-hours 97.54 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:
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A brief description of the on-site renewable electricity generating facilities/devices:
On site renewable power systems
-Solar House – Solar decathlon competition (2018) - 9.6 kW solar PV system.
-Solar PV system with cleaning and cooling technologies – 3 kW
-Solar PV system for golf chart charging – 1 kW capacity
-Solar PV system for the greenhouse - 5 kW capacity

Clean and renewable thermal energy

Clean and renewable thermal energy (report MMBtu):
MMBtu
Clean and renewable stationary fuels used on-site to generate thermal energy 187.62 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water from certified/verified clean and renewable sources 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the clean and renewable stationary fuels:
*Renewable energy systems - generate thermal energy
Solar Parabolic trough collectors for Air conditioning Systems (LI/Br/water system)
-10 tones cooling capacity (10 tones x 3.52 kW/tone= 32.5 kW)
-30 parabolic trough collectors

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:
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Unbundled renewable energy products

Unbundled renewable energy products (report kWh):
kWh MMBtu
Purchased RECs, GOs, I-RECs or equivalent unbundled renewable energy products certified by a third party 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the unbundled renewable energy products:
None

Metrics used in scoring

Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
285.16 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.03

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:
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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 0
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 0.02
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.04

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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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 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
None – No source of energy is used for heating the buildings – only energy used for air conditioning systems.

Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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