Residence Hall Energy Competition

Weekly Progress:
The kWh readings will be updated every Tuesday so please check back every week. The amount listed shows kWh usage per student as compared to base data from September. A negative (-) sign indicates a decrease while a positive sign (+) indicates an increase.
Residence Halls Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Total
Stone Davis
and Small Houses
-4.86kWh -1.16kWh +1.15kWh -4.87kWh
Tower Court -6.18kWh +1.58kWh +2.04kWh -2.56kWh
Quint -2.35kWh +0.78kWh +0.89kWh -0.68kWh
New Dorms -4.21kWh +2.04kWh +1.87kWh -0.3kWh

Campus-Wide Usage:
Buildings Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Total
Campus-Wide 620,736kWh 570,144kWh 502,176kWh
Residence Halls 90,433kWh 92,112kWh 94,533kWh
Academic/Auxiliary 530,302kWh 478,032kWh 407,643kWh

Rules:
Residence Halls have been divided into four clusters according to location. At the end of the week the Facilities Department will take electric meter readings for each cluster. Weekly results will be compared to usage data taken prior to the competition. The cluster of Residence Halls yielding the highest electric decrease per student for the four week total will win. To see how the Residence Halls were divided into clusters, see below.

Prizes:
Bragging rights that your hall made the largest contribution in reducing the total energy cost in the Residence Halls for the month! Residents in the winning cluster of halls will be awarded funds for a “Green” themed celebratory event. Also, each resident in the winning cluster will be entered in a raffle to win one of several fantastic “Green” prizes.

Cluster Division:
Tower Court: Tower Court East and West, Claflin, Severence, Lake House, and Cervantes
Quint: Beebe, Cazenove, Pomeroy, Shafer, and Munger
New Dorms: Freeman, Bates, and McAfee
Stone Davis and Small Houses: Stone, Davis, Dower, Homestead, and Instead.


• Traci Robie, Facilities Department: trobie@wellesley.edu
• Created by: Thutrang T. Nguyen '08
• Date Created: September 2006
• Date Modified: October 24, 2006
• Date Expires: November 2006