Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.76
Liaison Eric Meliton
Submission Date Jan. 16, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Wilfrid Laurier University
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.01 / 4.00 Suma Abid
Energy Manager
Facilities and Asset Management
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
283,625.55 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:
389 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
108 kW rooftop solar PV array - Lazaridis Hall. Approx. 550 kW solar came online at the end of 2018.

Option 2 

Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site, performance year:
337 MMBtu

None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
Solar thermal wall - Solar energy pre-heats fresh air for bldg intake - Library and Bricker Residence

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:
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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:
0 MMBtu

A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
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Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://students.wlu.ca/student-life/sustainability/index.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 1
Coal 0
Geothermal 0
Hydro 23
Natural gas 28
Nuclear 35
Solar photovoltaic 0.35
Wind 12
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
2MW of battery energy storage to come online in 2019.

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

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Data not available - Electric heat, cooling, and plug loads are not sub-metered Data not available - Domestic hot water and building heat NG consumption is not sub-metered.

Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.26

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Percents of electricity from different sources from: IESO - Ontario's Supply Mix.

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