Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.52
Liaison Geory Kurtzhals
Submission Date Oct. 15, 2014
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University of Notre Dame
OP-8: Clean and Renewable Energy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.57 / 7.00 Geory Kurtzhals
Sr. Director
Office of Sustainability
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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 :
262.75 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:
0 MMBtu

Option 5: Total electricity generated with cogeneration technology using non-renewable fuel sources :
2,268,399 MMBtu

Total energy consumed during the performance year :
2,529,118 MMBtu

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

Stinson-Remick Hall 50kw solar array, Fitzpatrick Hall 10 kw solar array, Power Plant 3.5 kw vertical wind turbine, White Field Research 2-25 kw wind turbines.


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, including contract timeframes:
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A brief description of cogeneration technologies deployed:

Five steam turbine generators, of which two are back pressure and three are extraction type, are used to cogenerate electricity with the waste heat being used to heat campus or drive turbine driven chillers to cool campus.
http://utilities.nd.edu/assets/12786/7635_utilitiesbrochure_09.pdf


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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