Overall Rating Reporter - expired
Overall Score
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date April 14, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Swarthmore College
OP-8: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Ralph Thayer
Director of Maintenance
Facilities Management
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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 :
0 MMBtu

Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated:
0 MMBtu

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 :
0 MMBtu

Option 4: Total RECs and other similar renewable energy products that the institution purchased during the performance year that are Green-e certified or meet the Green-e standard's technical requirements and are third party verified:
21,881 MMBtu

Option 5: Total electricity generated with co-generation technology using non-renewable fuel sources :
0 MMBtu

Total energy consumed during the performance year :
148,032 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 RECs or other similar renewable energy products purchased during the previous year:

A total of 6,413 MWh of a national wind green-e certified RECs are purchased annually from Community Energy which represents 40% of the campus annual power consumption. Additional REC's will be purchased to move the College to 50% to participate in the EPA Green Power Partner program.


A brief description of co-generation technologies deployed:
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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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