Overall Rating | Reporter - expired |
---|---|
Overall Score | |
Liaison | Debra Shepard |
Submission Date | March 6, 2020 |
Executive Letter | Download |
Wentworth Institute of Technology
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
---|---|---|
Reporter |
Debra
Shepard Sustainability Consultant N/A |
"---"
indicates that no data was submitted for this field
Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
115,281.80
MMBtu
Option 1
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
Wentworth has a solar PV array on the new CEIS building which produces 22,000 kWh of electricity per year. The credits from this system are sold through the SMART program.
Option 2
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
---
Option 3
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
---
Option 4
4,015.89
MMBtu
A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Wentworth has a contract for Green-e certified RECs roughly equivalent to 10% of its electricity consumption. The contract period runs from November 1, 2017 to October 31, 2020.
Optional Fields
---
Additional documentation to support the submission:
---
Sierra magazine requests the following information from U.S. institutions that wish to share data with that organization:
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100) | |
Biomass | 8.20 |
Coal | 2.40 |
Geothermal | 0 |
Hydro | 5.30 |
Natural gas | 49.80 |
Nuclear | 30.40 |
Solar photovoltaic | 0.70 |
Wind | 2.50 |
Other (please specify and explain below) | 0.80 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
0.6% Oil; 0.1% other fossil, 0.1% other unknown
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 | 100 |
Other (please specify and explain below) | --- |
A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Natural gas is used either directly in stand-alone buildings, or to generate steam for the campus district heating system and combined heat & power (CHP) plant which serve the main block of academic buildings. The 610 Huntington residence hall also has a CHP system.
Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
3.48
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
---
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.