Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.88
Liaison Kristina Hope
Submission Date Feb. 13, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Knox College
OP-9: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.17 / 4.00 Deb Steinberg
Director of Campus Sustainability Initiatives
Office of Sustainability
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Total energy consumption (all sources, transportation fuels excluded), performance year:
148,666 MMBtu

Clean and renewable energy from the following sources::
Performance Year
Option 1: Clean and renewable electricity generated on-site during the performance year and for which the institution retains or has retired the associated environmental attributes 0 MMBtu
Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated on-site 0 MMBtu
Option 3: 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 0 MMBtu
Option 4: Purchased third-party certified RECs and similar renewable energy products (including renewable electricity purchased through a certified green power purchasing option) 6,215 MMBtu

A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
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A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
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A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
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A brief description of the RECs and/or similar renewable energy products:

In May of 2014, Knox purchased enough Green-E Certified RECs to account for 100% of the coming year's electricity consumption.


The website URL where information about the institution's renewable energy sources is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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