| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 50.03 |
| Liaison | Mike Evans |
| Submission Date | May 28, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Williams College
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.00 / 4.00 |
Amy
Johns Director Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives |
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indicates that no data was submitted for this field
Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
364,881
MMBtu
Option 1
95.50
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
Williams has many solar photovoltaic arrays on campus, but most are through a power purchase agreement and we do not retain the RECs for those system. We have three systems for which we retain the RECs-- a 7.2 kw at Morley Labs and a 26.88 kw at Library shelving facility both of which are older and currently do not have working metering. The third is a 14kw system on the Log.
The Log produced 15,456.64 kwh in FY 2018.
Option 2
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
Williams has three solar hot water systems, but unfortunately does not have metering systems on them, so the energy generated from them is not included in this total.
Option 3
0
MMBtu
None
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
N/A
Option 4
0
MMBtu
A brief description of the RECs, GOs and/or similar renewable energy products, including contract timeframes:
Williams has purchased green-e certified RECs from Community Energy in the past, but hasn't done so in a few years.
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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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 | --- |
| Coal | 4 |
| Geothermal | --- |
| Hydro | 11 |
| Natural gas | 47 |
| Nuclear | 18 |
| Solar photovoltaic | --- |
| Wind | 3 |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | 17 |
A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Oil 4.2%
Municipal Trash 0.4%
Biomass 0.1%
Low Impact Hydro Institute 12%
(Low Impact Hydro Institute certification means that these plants meet or exceed rigorous criteria in eight key areas: river flowers, water quality, fish passage and protection, watershed protection, threatened and endangered species protection, cultural resource protection, recreation, and facilities recommended for removal.
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 | --- |
| Other (please specify and explain below) | --- |
A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.03
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Another website about our renewable energy http://sustainability.williams.edu/installation/morley-science-center-pv
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