Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 45.79
Liaison Larry Cook
Submission Date Dec. 4, 2020
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of South Carolina
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Brian Wiggins
Measurement and Verification Manager
Facilities
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
1,493,579 MMBtu

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:
50.02 MMBtu

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

2 X 5 KW Fuel cells for lighting at the baseball stadium and Green Quad Dorm
5 KW solar PV for the baseball stadium
26 KW solar covered walkway at the Blatt PE Center

We have trash cans that have solar panels as well as solar panel arrays on the Baseball Stadium and Blatt PE Center.


Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site, performance year:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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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, performance year:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Total third-party certified RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products (including renewable electricity purchased through a utility-provided certified green power option) purchased during the performance year:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 2.80
Coal 24.90
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1.50
Natural gas 29.50
Nuclear 39.60
Solar photovoltaic 1.10
Wind 0.20
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

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 11.20
Fuel oil 4.80
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 84
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:

None


Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.00

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The renewables information came from internal sources.
The numbers regarding Electricity use, by source, is from the USGRID SRVC regional Electricity generation profile.
The numbers regarding Energy use for heating buildings, by source, are estimates based on our building heating profile during the performance year.


The renewables information came from internal sources.
The numbers regarding Electricity use, by source, is from the USGRID SRVC regional Electricity generation profile.
The numbers regarding Energy use for heating buildings, by source, are estimates based on our building heating profile during the performance year.

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