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GGAP Emissions Measurement Worksheet
PURPOSE: The following worksheet will help you determine your institution's emissions, from 1990 on to 2005. All New Jersey colleges pledged to participate in the Greenhouse Gas Action Plan: a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 3.5% below 1990 levels by 2005 (see www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/gcc/gcc.htm
and this
NJHEPS press release). This worksheet will enable you to measure your progress and make energy plans to enable your institution to attain GGAP levels of emissions reductions. It is easy to reduce your energy intensity (as measured by tons of emissions per sq. ft. or population size) by 3.5% below 1990 levels: 80% of the 24 New Jersey institutions reporting to us have done so. It's also not very difficult to achieve a 3.5% reduction in emissions, notwithstanding size and population expansion -- 46% of reporting colleges have achieved this, so your institution can too! (See the NJHEPS Energy & Emissions page for a GGAP update.)
PROCEDURE:
- You can print and fill out the online worksheet from our website, and then mail/fax it to NJHEPS so that NJHEPS can calculate your emissions.
- Alternatively, you can download an Excel version of this worksheet, which will perform the emissions calculations. Either click on the link, and the spreadsheet will be displayed in your browser window, or right-click on the link and select "Save Target As" to download the Excel worksheet to your hard drive). Please save the filled-in spreadsheet and email it to NJHEPS (cfederico@njheps.org).
- Coming Soon: a comprehensive campus emissions measurement tool from Clean-Air, Cool-Planet (www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/for_campuses.php).
- You can download a GGAP Permissions Packet (in Microsoft Word format)-- permission forms and forms for utility account numbers that can allow us to calculate fuel and electricity usage. This method, however, is more prone to errors, as we are not as familiar with your electricity and fuel accounts as you are. We prefer that your institution send us usage info directly if possible. If constraints make gathering this information impossible, please use this packet so that we may work with energy and fuel suppliers to calculate your electricity and fuel usage.
Data (for 1990 and current year):
- Total purchase of electricity (required).
- Total electricity sold (required)
- Net electricity purchased (required)
- Emissions-free electricity purchased -- e.g., wind energy (required)
- Total purchase of fuel oil (required)
- Total natural gas purchased (required)
- Total purchase of gasoline (required)
- Total other (propane, sold heat/steam, etc.) (required)
- Total campus climate-controlled area (required) -- the total square footage of the campus that is climate-managed. (If this is impossible to obtain, please let us know that you are sending the campus' gross square footage.)
- Total campus population (full-time equivalent staff + full-time equivalent students) (required)
- Emissions avoided, since 1990, through increased use of recycled material, as measured by the EPA's ReCon tool (optional)
- Emissions avoided, since 1990, through improved recycling/processing of waste, as measured by the EPA's Project WARM (optional)
- Emissions avoided, since 1990, through reduced campus travel-miles: use Clean Air-Cool Planet tool (see above) if you have this data. (optional)
Note: please subtract out any electricity or fuel consumed by tenants unaffiliated with your institution.
What We Will Calculate:
- Changes in Campus Emissions since 1990
- Changes in Campus Emissions per Sq. Ft. since 1990
- Changes in Campus Emissions per FTE (i.e., campus population) since 1990
- Avoided Emissions since 1990 (both sq. ft. and FTE basis)
Sources: US
Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (see:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/forms.html ), 1991 NJ Energy Master Plan, 1990 PSE&G Electric
Tariff, and EIA Electric Power Annual 1999, Volume 2, Table
24; US EPA E-Grid; NJ DEP and NJ BPU; PJM Interconnection, LLC.
DISCLAIMER:
While "greenhouse gases" include more than just CO(2) (methane,
among others, is also strongly implicated), we have focused
exclusively on this gas due to its prevalence in the inventory of
emissions, its role as an indicator of climate altering gases, and
its predominance in global climate change science. Measurement of CO2
is particularly useful because emissions can be calculated as a
direct ratio of fossil fuel use.
The data and calculations recommended in this "protocol" are
insufficient to offer a full accounting of any given institution's
contribution to climate alteration. The science of global climate
change remains inexact. Our measures of CO(2) emissions are incomplete.
We believe, however, after careful consideration, that our
measurement tool and data se is capable of establishing benchmarks that can
serve as a basis for informed decision-making, and improved energy
management and infrastructure design.
Go To Online Worksheet
Download the NJHEPS GGAP Excel Calculator
Download the GGAP Permissions Packet
NJHEPS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE
SUPPORT OF:
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
New Jersey Clean Energy Program
NJHEPS Corporate Sponsors
AT&T Foundation
and its 40+ Member Institutions
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