Energy
Introduction
For most institutions, energy consumption is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global climate change. Implementing conservation measures and switching to renewable sources of energy can help institutions save money and protect them from utility rate volatility. Renewable energy may be generated locally and allow campuses to support local economic development. Furthermore, institutions can help shape markets by creating demand for cleaner, renewable sources of energy.
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64 kW Rooftop Array: Computing Commons
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Ameresco, Inc. (MA)
- NRG Energy, Inc (NJ)
Roof top mount. Computing Commons: Fixed system. 266 panels. 63.84 kWdc. PV Panel Type: Kyrocera KD240GX-LPU(ZT) Inverter Type: Adv Energy PV Powered 50 (1)
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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60 kW Rooftop Array: McClelland Park
- University of Arizona (AZ)
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- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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40 kW University of Arizona Biosphere 2
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Working with Solarmax Arizona, Biosphere 2 researchers adhered solar panels to the material used to cover the tailings mounts, Allen said. Three different mounting options are now being tested at …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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27 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Honors Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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23 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Agave Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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23 kW Rooftop Array: Julie Ann Wrigley Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
Formerly home to the College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, which moved to ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus, Wrigley Hall has been renovated to include sustainability features which will enhance the …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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22 kW Rooftop Array: Student Recreation Center
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In May 2009, the installation of photovoltaic panels was completed on the rooftops of McClelland Hall, McClelland Park, the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center, the Student Recreation Center, and most dramatic of …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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21 kW Rooftop Array: Villa Del Puente Residence Hall
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Villa del Puente Residence Hall (VDP) is located in the Highland District and consists of two buildings that are connected at the second and third floors by pedestrian bridges. This …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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20 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Cereus Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
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20 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Rosewood Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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17 kW Rooftop Array: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
- Northwestern University (IL)
The Centennial Solar Panel System, a solar photovoltaic array covering nearly the entire available roof of Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, was installed and connected to the building’s electric …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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17 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Sage Hall South
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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17 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Cottonwood Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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13 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Juniper Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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13 kW Parking Canopy Array: ASU Police
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
Ground mounted parking canopy. ASU Police Department parking lot: Fixed system. 12.67 kWdc. 38 shaded parking spaces (30 = vehicles; 8 = motorcycles). PV Panel Type: Uni-Solar Thin-Film 110 watts …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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12 kW Rooftop Array: Posada San Pedro Hall
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The SolarCats club very first mission was to get photovoltaic solar panels on their PSP residence hall. After nearly 3 years of research and more research, presenting for funding, and …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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10 kW Array: Facilities Management Building
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
In the summer of 2008, SFU has taken the initiative to put up 54 solar photovoltaic panels on the south face of the Facilities Management Building to convert sunlight to …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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10 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Sage Hall North
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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10 kW Rooftop Array: Barrett Honors College - Willow Hall
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Lafferty Electric Technologies (AZ)
The Barrett Honors College is located in the south portion of the Tempe campus (directly north of Apache Boulevard), along the eastern boundary of the campus. It is the first …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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740 kW Solar Field
- Rider University (NJ)
- RGS Energy (CO)
Rider has partnered with PSE&G and Alteris Renewables (now Real Goods Solar) to install a 3.2 acre, 0.74 megawatt solar field at the back of the campus just beyond the …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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81 kW Rooftop Array
- Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MA)
MMA is tapping into New England sunshine for a portion of its power needs, thanks to our roof mounted solar photovoltaic system. It consists of 450 Evergreen solar panels that …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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75 kW Solar Light Pathway
- Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MA)
The 62 solar pathway and parking lot lights, powered by photovoltaic (PV) panels, are completely independent of the electric grid. These solar powered light posts can easily be installed wherever …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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21 kW Rooftop Array: Whitney Applied Technology Center
- Onondaga Community College (NY)
Onondaga Community College installed a 21.16 kWp solar array on the roof of the Whitney Applied Technology Center in Spring 2011. The panels will be used for student education and …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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10 kW Ground Mount Array: Athletic Fields
- Wellesley College (MA)
Wellesley’s 10 kilowatt photovoltaic solar panels at the Sports Fields have been generating renewable energy for electricity on campus since 2010. In 2014, the solar panels produced 12,381.3 kilowatt hours …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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5 kW Rooftop Array: Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Harvard University (MA)
In 2010, Harvard Graduate School of Education installed solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of Gutman Library to generate renewable energy for the building. In 2012, the renovation of the …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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4 kW Ground Mount Array: Sustainability House
- Luther College (IA)
- GoSolar! (IA)
The Sustainability House receives electricity from a 4 kilowatt (kW), pole-mounted solar array erected on a nearby parcel of land. The $22,000 system was installed in the summer of 2011 …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2011
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13 kW Rooftop Array: Javelina Hall
- Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ)
Salt River Project donated the construction of a ramada as well as the installation of solar panels for the ramada’s rooftop, which can generate up to 13-kilowatts of energy.
- Posted Sept. 29, 2011
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86 kW Rooftop Array: Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The building’s sustainable features include innovative water recycling (89 percent projected reuse), 1.4 million gallon cistern, locally sourced materials, native landscaping and rooftop solar panel array – all of which …
- Posted Sept. 28, 2011
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20 kW Rooftop Array: Goodwin Hall
- Queen's University
A 20 kilowatt solar array was placed on Goodwin Hall, in June of 2002. It was constructed as a learning, teaching, and research tool for Applied Science students, and it …
- Posted Sept. 23, 2011
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17.4 MW Solar Farm (100 Acres)
- Mount St. Mary's University (MD)
- University System of Maryland Office (MD)
- Constellation Energy (MD)
Mount St. Mary's University hosts a 17.4-megawatt solar power system on 100 acres of land on its East Campus that it leased to Constellation Energy. The University of Maryland System …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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8 MW Solar System: West Windsor Campus (45 Acres)
- Mercer County Community College (NJ)
An 8-megawatt solar project installed by the Mercer County Improvement Authority (MCIA) at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) is expected to save the college $15 million over the next 15 …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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8 MW Solar Canopy (28 Acres)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- SunPower Corp (CA)
Covering 28 acres of parking lot at the Livingston Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, this is one of the largest solar canopy energy systems in the …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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6 MW Solar Field (41 Acres)
- United States Air Force Academy (CO)
- SunPower Corp (CA)
This $18.3-million project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Comprised of 18,888 solar panels spread over 41 acres, the solar field is expected to generate …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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6 MW Solar Field (39 Acres)
- West Hills Community College District (CA)
West Hills Community College's solar project covers 39 acres at the West Hills Community College Coalinga campus Farm of the Future project. It was designed to reduce the district's electric …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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5.3 MW Solar Field
- Princeton University (NJ)
- SunPower Corp (CA)
Princeton's 5.3-megawatt solar array went online in fall 2012. The system provided approximately 5.5 percent of campus electricity in 2013. A third party will claim the CO2 reductions until the …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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5 MW Multi-Technology Solar Array
- Arizona Western College (AZ)
The Arizona Western College 5 MW Solar Array is a unique combination of five (5) solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies all deployed at 1 MW equivalent scale at the “sunniest place …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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3 MW Rooftop and Parking Canopy Arrays
- William Paterson University of New Jersey (NJ)
- SunDurance Energy (NJ)
William Paterson University's 3 MW solar energy installation is expected to reduce energy costs by $4.3 million over15 years while supplying 15 of its energy needs.
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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3.3 MW Ground Mount Array: Foothills Campus Chrisman Field Solar Plant (Phase 2)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- FSL Solar
A 5.3 megawatt (5,300 kW), 30-acre solar plant is located at Chrisman Field on the Foothills Campus (Phase 1 completed, Dec. 2009 and Phase 2 completed, Dec. 2010). The plant …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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3.2 MW Parking Canopies (34 Canopies in 6 Lots)
- Chevron Energy Solutions (CA)
- Contra Costa Community College District Office (CA)
Contra Costa College District has a 3.2 megawatt system mounted across 34 canopies in 6 parking lots at three of its colleges. The solar installation is expected to generate about …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2.8 MW Solar Canopy Arrays
- San Diego Community College District (CA)
- Borrego Solar (MA)
The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) multi-site solar energy systems total just over 2.8 MW in size. The installation is one of the largest installations for a Community College …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2.7 MW Canopy Array (Phase 3)
- Butte College (CA)
2011: The college has received approval to finish the final phase of a solar project, adding 2.7 megawatts to an existing 1.85 megawatts of capacity. Federal Clean Renewable Energy Bonds …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2.7 MW Parking Canopies: Lots 1, 2, and 3
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Solar Power Partners
- Ameresco, Inc. (MA)
Ground-mount parking canopy. West campus parking lots 1, 2, and 3: Fixed system. 9,828 panels. 2679.5 kWdc. PV Panel Type: Suntech Polycrystalline 275 watts Inverter Type: Satcon PowerGate Plus (375 …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2.3 MW Solar Parking Canopies
- Atlantic Cape Community College (NJ)
Atlantic Cape chose Pepco Energy to develop a 2.3 megawatt solar electric generating system for its campuses. The solar photovoltaic system will generate up to 48 percent of Atlantic Cape's …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2.2 MW Solar Farm (17 Acres)
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore (MD)
- SunEdison
UMES activated a “solar farm” on a former cornfield in early 2011 and its 7,800 collection panels have been converting the sun’s rays into electricity at a healthy clip ever …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2 MW Ground Mount Array: Foothills Campus Chrisman Field Solar Plant (Phase 1)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- AMEC
- FSL Solar
A 5.3 megawatt (5,300 kW), 30-acre solar plant is located at Chrisman Field on the Foothills Campus (Phase 1 completed, Dec. 2009 and Phase 2 completed, Dec. 2010). The plant …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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2 MW Solar Field (15 Acres)
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
Florida Gulf Coast University has completed construction of a 15-acre solar photovoltaic array that produces approximately 85 percent of the energy needed to operate its Engineering and Business School buildings, …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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1.6 MW Expansion: Solar Zone at Science & Technology Park
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In December 2010, a 1.6-megawatt solar energy system dually built by SOLON Corporation and Tucson Electric Power Company was installed. SOLON has built its own manufacturing facility in Tucson and …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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1.4 MW Solar Field
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- SunDurance Energy (NJ)
Nearly half of the $10 million cost of the project – $4.9 million – will be subsidized by a rebate through the NJ BPU (Board of Public Utilities) Clean Energy …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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1.3 MW Canopy and Rooftop Arrays: Kellogg Gym, Lyle Center, and Parking
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
- SunEdison
Cal Poly Pomona has 4,500 solar panels installed as canopies in a parking structure and on the roof of their Kellogg Gym. The system can produce up to 1.8 million …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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1.2 MW Rooftop and Canopy Arrays (11 sites)
- University of San Diego (CA)
- AMSOLAR International (CA)
In November 2010, USD installed 5,000 solar PV panels across 11 campus buildings that generate 1.23 megawatts of energy. Holistically, the project can provide up to 15 percent of campus …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
OP 5: Building Energy Efficiency
- Total performance year site energy consumption per unit of floor area
- Total performance year source energy consumption per unit of floor area
- Percent reduction in total source energy consumption per unit of floor area from baseline
- Description of initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices in regard to energy efficiency
- Description of energy use standards and controls employed by the institution
- Description of LED lighting and other energy-efficient lighting strategies
- Description of passive solar heating, geothermal systems, and related strategies
- Description of co-generation employed by the institution
- Description of initiatives to replace energy-consuming equipment with high efficiency alternatives
- Website URL - Energy conservation and efficiency program
OP 6: Clean and Renewable Energy
- Percent of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources
- Website URL - Clean and renewable energy programs
- Percent of electricity from coal
- Percent of electricity from geothermal
- Percent of electricity from hydro
- Percent of electricity from natural gas
- Percent of electricity from nuclear energy
- Percent of electricity from solar photovoltaic
- Percent of electricity from wind
- Percent of electricity from wind
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.