Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.23
Liaison Jim Walker
Submission Date June 14, 2018
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STARS v2.1

University of Texas at Austin
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Tejas Pevakar
Associate Director of Support Services
Utilities and Energy Management
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
5,069,588 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:
2,656.70 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
There are several locations on campus where electricity is generated from solar power and fed into the campus grid. These are: 1) Facilities Complex Bldg # 3 (FC3) - 2) Manor Garage (MAG) - 3) Pickle Research Campus (PRC). A separate site uses solar power to produce hot water at Norman Hackerman Building (NHB).

Option 2 

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

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
The NHB solar thermal system is the Apricus AP-30 evacuated tube system and consists of 36 5-panel banks. The heated water goes to the reheat coils in the VAV terminal units.

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:
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Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://www.utexas.edu/facilities/sustainability/energy.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Sierra magazine requests the following information from U.S. institutions that wish to share data with that organization:

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 100
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
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 ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas ---
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:
0.06

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Other website: http://www.webberenergygroup.com/solar/ For the purposes of reporting data on this credit, the performance year is fiscal year 2012-2013, i.e. September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2013.

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