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The combined renewable energy purchases of Harvard's Schools and Departments currently represents the second largest green power purchase in the country by a higher education institution, according to U.S. EPA's spring 2005 Top 25 Partner data. The schools and departments at Harvard that have purchased renewable energy include: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard Real Estate (HRES), Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard Business School (HBS). Since 2004, the HSPH has purchased wind energy certificates to offset 50 percent of the electricity of all buildings at HSPH's main campus and the Shattuck International House and the Landmark Center 4th Floor West (a U.S. Green Building Council LEED-CI certified project). HSPH is Harvard's largest purchaser of renewable energy, with purchases paid for largely from energy savings through technical upgrades and the annual "Go Cold Turkey" competition (http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/coldturkey/). In February 2004, students at the KSG voted to pay $5 each semester on their term bills to purchase clean power covering 100 percent of the school's electricity load. The KSG Administration had originally volunteered to purchase the difference to bring the purchase up to 100 percent wind energy. The Administration is now "giving back" the money to the students and is making the entire purchase from its operations budget to satisfy 100 percent of its electricity needs through clean energy. FAS has purchased wind energy certificates to offset 50 percent of the electrical use of eight buildings that were winners in the 2004 "Go Cold Turkey" competition. HRES has purchased a two-year contract that will provide enough renewable energy certificates annually to offset the Western Avenue graduate student housing electricity usage. The addition of clean energy to the building's list of green features helped this project earn key points towards its LEED Silver Certification. Five Harvard Medical School buildings won wind energy purchases for 25 percent of their 2005 electrical load in Go Cold Turkey 2004: Vanderbilt Hall, 160/164 Longwood, Countway Library, Gordon Hall and TMEC. Now HMS purchases over 2,000 MWh for the year of 2005. In 2003, an ambitious student-initiated project at the Harvard Business School led to the installation of a 192-panel photovoltaic (PV) array above Shad Hall, the second largest PV array in Boston. Harvard Business School is the only school so far to install onsite renewables in the form of photovoltaic panels. At the time of this writing, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers announced a $100,000 per year renewable energy fund. To learn more about Harvard's commitment to green power, please see http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu.

EPA Green Power Partnership

posted: 04. 4.05 [permalink]