1. Creating A Greener Energy Future For the Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Leading by Example Program
Leadership and Progress in State
Government
GreenStar
May 3, 2011
Eric Friedman, Director
Leading by Example Program

2. Discussion
• State Government
• Executive Order No. 484
• LBE Progress
• LBE Efforts
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3. Massachusetts State Government
• 29 College and University Campuses
• Large office complexes,18 prisons,
hospitals and health facilities,
hundreds of small parks and highway
depots, dozens of courts
• 70 million square feet of buildings
• 3,000 light duty vehicles
• 50,000 computers
• Thousands of electric and gas
accounts
• 50,000 employees
• Consume over 1 billion kWh
• Emit over 1 million tonnes of carbon
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4. Executive Order No. 484
Leading by Example—Clean Energy and Efficient Buildings
Issued April 2007 by Governor Deval Patrick
 Sets short, medium, and long-
term goals for state agencies: EO 484 Targets
 GHG emission reductions
 Energy reductions 80%
GHG Reductions 40%
25%
 Renewable energy Energy Reductions 20%
35%
2050
 Water conservation Renewables 30% 2020
15%
 Requires all new construction Bioheat Use 10% 2012
3%
to meet Mass. LEED Plus Water Reduction 15% 2008
10%
Standard
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
 Includes executive agencies,
community colleges and
university campuses, Trial
Court
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5. State Higher Ed GHG Emission Reductions
2010 GHG Emissions Vs. Baseline
10.00%
5.18%
4.5%
3.8%
2.61%
3.1%
3.0%
3.0%
2.6%
5.00%
2.3%
2.3%
0.8%
0.6%
0.2%
0.00%
0.0%
0.0%
-0.60%
-3.0%
-3.1%
-3.7%
-5.00%
-4.8%
-4.9%
-5.6%
-6.39%
-6.9%
-7.2%
-7.55%
-10.00%
-9.30%
-9.6%
-11.68%
-12.3%
-13.6%
-15.00%
-14.92%
-20.00%
FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10
Community Colleges State Universities Umass Total
• Using 02-04 baseline to account for weather and data variability
• 13.6% total GHG reduction from Baseline
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6. Campus Fuel Switching
Energy Use by Fuel
7,000,000,000
6,000,000,000
5,000,000,000
4,000,000,000 Heating Oil
KBTU
Coal
3,000,000,000 Natural Gas
Electricity
2,000,000,000
1,000,000,000
0
FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10
• Oil usage reduced 3 million gallons since 2002 – 36%
reduction
• Fuel Switching led to a 65% increase in Natural Gas
• Electricity from the grid down by almost 4%, despite
campus growth and expansions
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7. Efficiency at Existing Buildings
UMass Dartmouth $50 million energy project that will install natural gas co-generation power plant
• Using $3.3 million in Stimulus $ to leverage $242 million
• 25 Energy and 7 Renewable Projects across 22.4 million
sq ft
• Projects underway at State Universities, Community
Colleges, Courthouses, Public Hospitals
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8. Real-Time Energy Use Monitoring:
Enterprise Energy Management System (EEMS)
• $10 million ARRA funded
project to install real-
time monitoring of
steam, oil, gas, hot/chilled
water
• Phase 1 will install 1,100+
meters at 470 buildings
over 17 million square
feet
• 33 sites, including 10
campuses
• Estimated 5-15% energy
reductions annually
• Phase 1 installations
completed by June 2011.
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9. Financing Renewables Through ARRA:
Solar PV Installations
• $8 + million from federal stimulus funds
for almost 4 MW of solar PV at state
facilities
• Large Solar installations across:
 UMass Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell
 State Universities:
Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Framingham, Sale
m State, Worcester, and Westfield
 Community Colleges:
Berkshire, Massasoit, Greenfield, North
Shore
 1.2 MW at Dept. of Correction prisons
 MassDEP recycling center and state lab
 DCR Park
 Firefighting Academy
 MassPort Logan Airport and MWRA Deer
Island water treatment facility
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10. New Construction:
Green Buildings at Campuses
7 LEED Certified & 20 Registered 35% better than code
• CCCC – 1st state LEED certified (Gold) 27 kW PV system + daylighting
recycled materials
building at Science Center
greywater system for toilets
• Bunker Hill CC Wellness Center
(Registered Gold)
• NECC health & tech center (Planned
Silver)
• GCC Campus Core (Registered Silver)
State’s First Zero Net Energy Building
• North Shore Community College
constructing ZNEB which, over the Rendering of NSCC Zero Net Energy Building
course of a year will generate as much
energy on-site as it uses
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11. Case Study: Meeting the GHG Target:
UMass Amherst
GHG Emissions vs. Baseline
5.00%
0.32%
0.00%
-5.00%
-10.00%
-15.00% 10 MW CHP Power Plant
-14.44%
-20.00% -16.67%
-25.00% -21.91%
-30.00% -26.58%
-29.12%
-35.00%
FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10
• Largest energy user among all state entities (20% of campus total)
• Met GHG reduction goals three years ahead of 2012 Deadline
• Achieved reductions through $42 million energy performance
contract, installation of 10MW natural gas co-generation plant
• Eliminated coal plant in 2009
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