Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.28
Liaison Katie Koscielak
Submission Date April 21, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Cal Poly Humboldt
OP-6: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 4.00 Morgan King
Sustainability & Waste Coordinator
Facilities Management
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Total energy consumption (all sources, excluding transportation fuels), performance year :
152,238 MMBtu

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:
108.10 MMBtu

A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :

During the 2015-16 reporting year, HSU facilities hosted four solar PV systems: a 2.5 kW system on the Natural History Museum, a 2.5 kW system on the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, and a 12.5 kW system on the Music A building. HSU’s Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) also managed a 7 kW system at the Telonicher Marine Lab, which was installed in 1990 to power a 1 hp compressor motor that aerated the fish tanks at the marine lab. Excess solar power was stored as hydrogen (by electrolyzing water), which was used in a fuel cell to keep the compressor running in times of no sun. In 2011 this system became grid tied under a net metering agreement. In 2016 the system was retired since the modules had reached the end of their useful life.


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

A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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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

A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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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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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Electricity use, by source (percentage of total, 0-100):
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 3.80
Coal 0
Geothermal 3
Hydro 5.90
Natural gas 32
Nuclear 5.50
Solar photovoltaic 3.70
Wind 22
Other (please specify and explain below) 24.10

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:

Other is "Unspecified sources of power," which means electricity from transactions that are not traceable to specific generation sources and ISO imports. 2014 Power Mix represents Shell Energy purchases from specific eligible renewable energy resources and ISO System Power on behalf of the California State Universities.


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:
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Percentage of total energy consumption from clean and renewable sources:
0.07

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

To see real-time generation from the PV system on HSU's Natural History Museum, go to http://137.150.50.141/Footprints.html. To read about the PV system to power a pump and make hydrogen for a fuel cell, go to http://www.schatzlab.org/projects/archive/schatz_solar.html.


To see real-time generation from the PV system on HSU's Natural History Museum, go to http://137.150.50.141/Footprints.html. To read about the PV system to power a pump and make hydrogen for a fuel cell, go to http://www.schatzlab.org/projects/archive/schatz_solar.html.

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