UBC Energy Monitoring
Reduction: 3.8%
CO2 savings: 1719kg
Period: full day
The energy monitoring chart shows the electricity used by the main UBC campus throughout the day on Saturday March 29. The chart shows the actual electricity (in kilowatts) consumed by the campus, and the typical or expected energy consumption for the campus over the same period. The typical curve analyzes a wide range of energy information, including historical energy use and weather information, to predict how much energy the campus should be consuming at every moment of every day. The typical curve is useful for spotting anomalies between the actual energy consumption and what is expected.
Earth Hour at the University of British Columbia
On Saturday March 29th, over the course of the day, UBC encouraged students and faculty across the campus to minimize their energy use and took targeted action to reduce energy consumption at a number of buildings. As is evident from the energy consumption chart, starting at 8:00am, building operations staff reduced power consumption at several facilities on campus. With an energy consumption of 24MW, the co-ordinated, individual actions that UBC took over the course of the day had a large overall impact.
About the University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is one of North America's leading
universities, with 35,000 staff, faculty and students. Several years ago
UBC embarked on what became a $35 million campus-wide energy efficiency
project called EcoTrek.
Following the completion of the EcoTrek project in 2007, UBC turned its
focus to improved energy management in over 200 buildings, and partnered
with the Small Energy Group to collect, analyse, and communicate energy
information for the campus as a whole and specific buildings.
UBC buildings monitored by the Small Energy Group Dashboard
