Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 48.18
Liaison Ken Foster
Submission Date July 27, 2011
Executive Letter Download

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Vassar College
OP-8: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.03 / 7.00 Jeff Walker
College Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability
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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 :
71 MMBtu

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

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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

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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

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Option 5: Total electricity generated with co-generation technology using non-renewable fuel sources :
3,880 MMBtu

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Total energy consumed during the performance year :
266,542 MMBtu
+ Date Revised: Feb. 27, 2012
+ Date Revised: Feb. 27, 2012

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A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
17kW PV solar array

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A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
shallow source geothermal heating/cooling wells (see Notes)

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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:
1 megaW of cogeneration capacity on natural gas boiler

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The website URL where information about the institution's renewable energy sources is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Vassar College installed shallow-source geothermal heating and cooling in newly-built senior housing apartments (Town Houses and Terrace Apartments), and in the renovation of one dormitory (Davison House), but since we do not track the MBtu harvested or saved by these systems, we cannot claim them in this credit.

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