Environmental Impacts and Audits

Energy Audits

 The tables below show our top 10 sites for energy consumption for electricity and gas respectively. 

Electricity Consumption 

*Solar Array not fully operational until Feb 2023

Site	Base year electricity consumption (kWh)	2022/23 Electricity Consumption (kWh)	22/23 % of total electricity consumption	% change from base year	Renewable energy generation (kWh)	% of total energy from renewable sources
Penglais Campus	8,859,258	7,349,056	46.7%	-17%	1,319,753	17% *
Gogerddan Campus	4,833,178	4,751,404	30%	-2%	35,410	7%
Fferm Penglais	1,117,646	1,249,457	7.9%	6%	3000	0.24%
Trawscoed	475,441	809,580	5.1%	70%		-
Llanbadarn Campus	516,451	506,408	3.2%	-2%		-
Gogerddan Farm	78,303	260,848	2.4%	233%		-
Botany Gardens	348,109	286,492	1.8%	-18%		-
Ty Gwyn	28,571	54,385	0.3%	90%
Old College	88,437	50,877	0.3%	-42%		-
All Other Sites	357,315	230,998	2%	-6%		-

 

Gas Consumption

*Cambria has undergone refurbishment 

Site	Base year gas consumption (kWh)	2022/23 gas consumption (kWh)	22/23 % of total electricity consumption	% change from base year
Penglais Campus	11,279,752	7,800,853	41.3%	-31%
Gogerddan Campus	3,052,315	3,777,605	20.0%	24%
Fferm Penglais	3,764,291	3,584,772	19.0%	-5%
Llanbadarn Campus	1,178,525	1,544,751	8.2%	-31%
Botany Gardens	1,231,959	1,222,363	6.5%	-1%
Edward Davies	235,908	249,210	1.3%	6%
Castle Theatre	176,548	206,128	1.1%	17%
The Cambria *	0	171,604	0.9%	-
Plas Penglais	99499	78,086	0.4%	-22%
Vicarage Fields	65,245	73,555	0.4%	13%
All other sites	1,262,958	199,214	1.1%	-84%

Water Audit

See below for 2022-23's water audit, identifying the top 10 highest-consumption sites. 

*AIEC not fully operational until 2020. 

Site	Base Year water consumption (m3)	2022-2023 Water Consumption (m3)	2022/2023 % of total water consumption	% change from base year
Penglais Campus	64,353	113,317	41%	76%
Fferm Penglais	34,987	30,999	11%	-11%
Llanbadarn	8,459	23,793	9%	181%
Gogerddan	58,886	22,581	8%	-61%
Trawscoed	24,627	30,248	11%	22%
Brogerddan	9,241	23,921	9%	159%
AIEC Gogerddan*	148	20,424	3%	13700%
Botany Gardens	2,966	13,200	2%	345%
Ty Gwyn	4,389	10,069	2%	129%
Frongoch	9,416	9,467	2%	0.5%
All other sites	10,249	10,543	4%	3%

Total Emissions

Find our latest emissions and discharges audit in our Carbon Management Performance Statement 2022-23

Read more about how we're combatting carbon emissions on our carbon management pages. 

Residential Emissions

Our residential emissions for our main residential sites for 2022-2023 can be seen below:

	Electricity (tCO2e)	Gas (tCO2e)	Water (tCO2e)	Total (tCO2e)
Penglais Campus	669,592	627,880	8,809	1,306,282
Fferm Penglais	258,730	655758	5,477	919,966

 

Waste Audit

See table for our waste audit of 2022-23, comparative to our base year of 2019-20. 

Waste Category	Waste Mass (t) Base Year: 2019-20	Waste Mass (t) Current Year 2022-23	Percentage Change (%)
Recycled	174	510	66%
Anaerobic Digestion	81	97	17%
Used to Generate Energy	22	74	70%
Other	11	0	-
Total	88	681	87%

Based off our 2022-2023 staff commuting travel survey, find our travel survey data below. 

Staff Travel Audit

Our biodiversity progress report can be found here: Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems Progress Report 2022,

Read more about our biodiversity policies and baselines on our biodiversity webpage. 

Read our 2023 Sustainable Procurement Review below.

WRAP Cymru - Sustainable Procurement Maturity Review