Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 72.78
Liaison Emily Vollmer
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2021

STARS v2.2

Virginia Tech
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.38 / 4.00 Rob Glenn
Director
Virginia Tech Electric Service (VTES)
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (electric and non-electric)

Total energy consumption, performance year:
1,982,651.95 MMBtu

Clean and renewable energy sources

Clean and renewable electricity

Clean and renewable electricity (report kilowatt-hours):
kWh MMBtu
Imported electricity from certified/verified clean and renewable sources (i.e., bundled green power purchases) 0 Kilowatt-hours 0 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, clean and renewable sources (rights retained/retired) 133,472 Kilowatt-hours 455.41 MMBtu

A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable electricity:
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A brief description of the on-site renewable electricity generating facilities/devices:
Photovoltaic array on the Perry St. University Parking Garage

Clean and renewable thermal energy

Clean and renewable thermal energy (report MMBtu):
MMBtu
Clean and renewable stationary fuels used on-site to generate thermal energy 0 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water from certified/verified clean and renewable sources 0 MMBtu

A brief description of the clean and renewable stationary fuels:
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A brief description of the certified/verified sources of clean and renewable thermal energy:
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Unbundled renewable energy products

Unbundled renewable energy products (report kWh):
kWh MMBtu
Purchased RECs, GOs, I-RECs or equivalent unbundled renewable energy products certified by a third party 55,405,000 Kilowatt-hours 189,041.86 MMBtu

A brief description of the unbundled renewable energy products:
VTES purchased 90,222 RECs (90,222 MWh = 90,222,000 kWh) covering CY2019 (purchased in FY2020, April 2020) and applies for all their customers, both the campus and the Town of Blacksburg. This value is 20% of the electricity purchased by the utility. Campus makes up 61.41% of the total electrical energy from VTES. Thus, only 55,405 RECs (55,405,000 kWh) are for the campus portion as needed in this report.

Metrics used in scoring

Total clean and renewable energy generated or purchased:
189,497.27 MMBtu

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
9.56

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s support for clean and renewable energy is available:

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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 54.66
Geothermal ---
Hydro 1.56
Natural gas 10.89
Nuclear 28.27
Solar photovoltaic 0.03
Wind 4.59
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Data above based on CY19, AEP East Regulated Region Fuel Mix

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 16.21
Electricity ---
Fuel oil 0.04
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 83.75
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Perry St. Construction: https://roanoke.com/lifestyles/harnessing-the-sun-at-virginia-tech/article_97cabcb5-8056-5993-9cd8-32e3ad5e4100.html
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/02/020712-tcs-solarpanels.html

Data comes from the Virginia Tech Office of Energy Management, in conjunction with the Virginia Tech Electric Service (VTES), a university owned utility that serves the electric needs of both the Virginia Tech and part of the surrounding town of Blacksburg.

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