Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.89
Liaison Marian Brown
Submission Date Dec. 13, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Wells College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.54 / 4.00 Marian Brown
Director
Center for Sustainability and the Environment
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
49,916.20 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:
0 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
none

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:
none

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:
none

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:
6,758.46 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Starting with our new purchased electricity contract with Constellation Energy on Jan 1, 2017, we now obtain 100% Green-e certified RECs through Ecovations Renewable Energy.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Constellation RECs 2017.pdf

 

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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.50
Coal 4
Geothermal 0
Hydro 6
Natural gas 52
Nuclear 31
Solar photovoltaic 0.50
Wind 4
Other (please specify and explain below) 2

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Renewable biogas - less than 1% (factored into calculations above as 0.5%) Oil - less than 1% (factored into calculations above as 0.5%) Solid Waste - 1%

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 6.08
Fuel oil 3.25
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 90.67

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
We do not have access to natural gas lines, so we utilize propane to replace fuel oil in most buildings; #2 fuel oil is used as a backup fuel to propane. Two buildings have electric heating (Long Library 47,900sf; Dodge Hall 53,400sf) which together comprise 17.5% of the total campus square footage (577,757sf).

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
13.54

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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