This inventory includes The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville) Main Campus and Agricultural Campus - both of which are under the jurisdiction of the university Chancellor's office. It does not include UT Athletics (which became a UT Knoxville operation on July 1, 2010), The College of Veterinary Medicine, the Space Institute in Tullahoma, the Health Science Center in Memphis, or the Institute of Agriculture.

Version 6.6 of the Clean Air-Cool Planet Campus Carbon Calculator was selected because of its availability, user friendliness, and suitability for use by higher education institutions.

IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (2007)

This fiscal year 2009-10 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory was conducted during summer 2011 by UT Knoxville Sustainability Manager Gordie Bennett. In completing the inventory, Mr. Bennett adopted many of the same procedures and conventions used in previous UT Knoxville GHG inventories since 2007. See inventory report and Data Limitations section below for a description of the differences between this inventory and prior inventories.

See inventory report and Data Limitations section below for a description of de minimis emissions.

GENERAL:
This inventory does not include UT Athletics Department (UTAD) travel emissions. As in years past, the inventory does include energy use and waste from UTAD buildings on the Knoxville campus. Next year's inventory will include UTAD travel emissions, as FY 2011 is when the department became a UTK operation.

PURCHASED PAPER:
For the first time ever, the inventory includes paper purchasing emissions.

FERTILIZER USE:
Data on UT Gardens fertilizer use was not available at the time of the inventory. The reported total fertilizer use includes only main campus and the president's house.

Grounds began using some 50% organic fertilizer in FY2009. This was previously reported as synthetic fertilizer use. Problem corrected in FY2010 inventory.

NATURAL GAS USE:
Recalculated all natural gas conversions assuming 0.00106 MMBtu/1 CFT natural gas (for previous inventories, we had assumed 0.001031 MMBtu/1 CFT)

STEAM PRODUCTION:
Recalculated all steam conversions assuming 990 Btu/1 lb steam (previously assumed 1000 Btu/1 lb).

FLEET FUEL USE:
Fleet diesel use based on fuel purchased not direct consumption.

Transportation Services' E85 fuel use was negligible for FY 2010. The E85 pump was not operable until June 2010.

Facilities Services stopped purchasing B20 fuel for vehicles in FY2010.

For FY2008 thru FY2010, revised fleet gasoline gallons to reflect Transportation Services director's notes; previous years are ballpark estimates based on fuel expenditures, not gallons of gasoline consumed.

REFRIGERANTS:
Transportation Services handles a small amount of "R-34" refrigerant to maintain vehicles. Transportation Services was unable to provide estimate of total refrigerants used.

COMMUTING:
Commuting miles traveled (auto and bus) calculated using spring 2010 transportation survey; previous years used fall 2004 Knox TPO survey.

BUSINESS TRAVEL:
Faculty/staff reimbursed air travel unavailable; assume same as for FY09
Likewise, non-study abroad student air travel was also unavailable and assumed to be same as for FY09.

Reimbursed business car travel not included in inventory; travel data available from IRIS but this did not list mode of travel

STUDY ABROAD TRAVEL:
Programs Abroad data did not include destination cities (except in the International Travel Registration dataset). Because of this limitation, assumed that the students’ destination city was the capital city of their destination country.

Additionally, there was no data on travel done by students once they were abroad, so the Programs Abroad emissions estimates are incomplete.

TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION (T&D) LOSSES:
Electricity T&D losses assumed to be five percent for on-campus turbine generator.

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During fiscal year 2009-10, UT Knoxville purchased 4,250 150 kWh blocks of Green-e certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) through the Tennessee Valley Authority Green Power Switch Program. In total, these blocks generated 7,650,000 kWh of green power. Total electricity consumption for fiscal year 2009-10 was 243,914,524. Thus, 3.1 percent of total electricity consumption was mitigated through the purchase of RECs.

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