The winner of the 2015 Kill-A-Watt Challenge is: North House!
North House racked up their scores by a combination of energy savings (over 19% reduction!) and event participation. So now, North House residents, it is up to you to plan how you want to spend your winnings!
Three cheers to our top energy savers*:
- North House (18.4%)
- 371 Main (4.8%)
- Valcour (4.5%)
*figures were based comparing KwH usage per day, per person per gross square foot (size of the building) between each day in February 2015 and the first week of school in the spring semester (January 12-18, 2015).
Three cheers to our top participation point earners:
- Bader Hall (126 points)
- North House (70 points)
- Whiting (68 points)
All told, this year we actually saw an increase in electrical usage (an average of a 3% increase across main campus buildings). Four buildings saw savings between 1-18%, one building stayed exactly level, and nineteen buildings actually increased usage from last fall (anywhere between 1-20%). This is significantly different from our results last year (see them here) and may be explained by the fact that we utilized a new system this year (Campus Conservation Nationals dashboard) with a different baseline (a week of electrical usage in January in 2015, compared a month of electrical usage in October, as we had in past years). We will do some deeper analysis and see if we should use a different or longer baseline in the future, or stay the course and see if we just need to encourage more energy conservation behaviors.