Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.46
Liaison Winnie Mulamba
Submission Date March 13, 2017
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STARS v2.1

University of South Florida St. Petersburg
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.01 / 4.00 Brian Pullen
Sustainability Planner
Facilities Services
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
59,850.31 MMBtu

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:
187.30 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
We currently have a few PV arrays on our campus. Our largest is a 100kW array on top of our parking facility, which produced 54,934 kWh in 2015-2016 fiscal year. We also have a 5kW array at our Chiller Plant that produced 2,920 kWH in 2015-2016 fiscal year. We also have a 1 kW solar array at our Bayboro Food Forest (Garden) location which completely powers our pond pump and speakers for students working in the garden to listen to music. Finally we also have solar canopy picnic tables around campus that offer outlets for students to plug in their electronics to charge while working at the picnic table. Finally, we are also in the works of installing a 40 kW solar carport array in a newly constructed parking lot, which will help power our newly constructed biology labs.

Option 2 

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

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
N/A

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, performance year:
0 MMBtu

None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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Option 4 

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:
N/A

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Duke Energy Florida Carbon Intensity.pdf

 

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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 25
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas 70
Nuclear ---
Solar photovoltaic 5
Wind ---
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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 ---
Coal ---
Electricity 25
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 75
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.31

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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