| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.00 |
| Liaison | Richard Demerjian |
| Submission Date | May 24, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of California, Irvine
OP-8: Clean and Renewable Energy
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.43 / 7.00 |
Richard
Demerjian Assistant Vice Chancellor Office of Environmental Planning and Sustainability |
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 :
Option 2: Non-electric renewable energy generated:
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 :
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:
Option 5: Total electricity generated with cogeneration technology using non-renewable fuel sources :
Total energy consumed during the performance year :
A brief description of on-site renewable electricity generating devices :
UCI receives clean and renewable energy from two on-site photovoltaic (PV) projects on the UCI campus. A ground-mounted concentrated photovoltaic array (CPV Array) and a rooftop mounted PV array. Both projects are implemented through power purchase agreements through which UCI owns the REC’s for the CPV array and is securing the RECs for the PV array.
A brief description of on-site renewable non-electric energy devices:
Recovered heat from our combustion turbine power plant generates high-temperature water, which provides heating to the campus. The listed quantity of heat recovered (385,935 MMBtu) displaced at least 485,453 MMBtu of natural gas, which would have been burned to supply heat to the campus with the conventional boiler plant.
A brief description of off-site, institution-catalyzed, renewable electricity generating devices:
A brief description of RECs or other similar renewable energy products purchased during the previous year, including contract timeframes:
A brief description of cogeneration technologies deployed:
Since mid-2007, the campus has operated a combustion turbine generating plant at its award-winning central heating and cooling plant, which provides greater than 95 percent of the heating and cooling to the core campus facilities. The cogeneration facility uses a Solar Turbines Titan combustion turbine with an available steam turbine for additional energy recovery. Emissions are tightly controlled with NOx emissions below 2 ppm by volume. The generating plant provides 81.8% of the electricity used by the campus and the heat recovery steam generator displaces more than 485,000 MMBtu of natural gas that would otherwise have been burned in conventional boilers.
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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