Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.50
Liaison Cora Kenfield
Submission Date July 22, 2014
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STARS v2.0

Vassar College
OP-9: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 David Bishop
Manager of Mechanical Trades
Buildings & Grounds
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Total energy consumption (all sources, transportation fuels excluded), performance year:
266,542 MMBtu

Clean and renewable energy from the following sources::
Performance Year
Option 1: 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
Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site 0 MMBtu
Option 3: 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
Option 4: Purchased third-party certified RECs and similar renewable energy products (including renewable electricity purchased through a certified green power purchasing option) 0 MMBtu

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

7kW PV solar array on the roof of the College Center


A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:

Vassar College installed shallow-source geothermal heating and cooling in newly-built senior housing apartments (Town Houses and Terrace Apartments), but since we do not track the MBtu harvested or saved by these systems, we cannot claim them in this credit.


A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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A brief description of the RECs and/or similar renewable energy products:
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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:
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