The baseline will be calculated from readings taken in January, 2009, and all subsequent reductions will be measured as a percentage of said baseline.
Every Friday, Facilities will read the electricity meter in each of the 10 participating dorms to record how much energy has been used in the past week. For each dorm, this weekly number will then be compared to that of a typical week in January. For example, if a dorm used 25,300 kilowatt hours during one week in January and 24,200 kWh during the first week of February, its reduction for Week 1 would be 4%.
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Have you folks done anything about the issue of dorms with ongoing construction? I know that's thrown some houses off lately - Snell-Hitchcock, for example, took a serious hit last year on power consumption because they're rebuilding Searle, and we seem to overlap on some electrical grid.
Quoted from Chris Keating, Director of Facilities & Business Operations for the Residence Halls & Commons:
"As for the persistent belief that the construction projects
caused the BJ and SH readings to increase, that is not correct.
"[E]ach residence hall
has its own meters to measure electricity usage. Neither of
the construction projects adjacent to those two buildings were
connected to electric sources on the residence hall side of
the meter. Therefore, no electricity consumed in those
projects was reflected in our meter readings. The increases
in BJ and SH usage from 07 to 08 were primarily a result of
the telecommunications closets which were built in each of
those buildings to support the infrastructure of the new
telecom rewiring that was done. BJ had four closets built and
SH had two. Each closet is air conditioned to keep the
telecom equipment operating properly. Neither of these
buildings had this type of infrastructure prior to Summer 07."
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