2015 Electricity Reduction Competition

1. What is an electricity reduction competition?2. Why host a competition?3. Is there a organization/ program set up for this?

a) What is CCN?4. How does it work?5. What is the cost to participate in the program?6. Plan7. How will students reduce electrical consumption? 8. Team members9. Timeline10. Q&A

Agenda

Building vs. building competition to see which residence hall can achieve the biggest percent reduction in electricity use during a competition period in comparison to a baseline period.

Old Dominion University is also competing against Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and University of Richmond to see who can save the most amount of energy.

What is an electricity reduction competition?

Lots of reasons…………….

1. Save electricity.(Typically goal is 3- 10% energy saving). 2. Empower students to develop leadership, community organizing, analysis and other skills.3. Foster a culture of conservation.4. Fulfill your institution’s mission to educate students, in particular incoming students.5. Create positive public relations with city and surrounding community. 6. Establish a positive campus tradition.7. Demonstrate that your campus is walking the sustainability talk.

Why host a competition?

Yes! The program is called Campus Conservation Nationals. The program is organized by USGBC, Lucid, Alliance, and the National Wildlife Federation. It is currently in its fifth year.

Is there an organization/ program set up for this?

Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) is the largest electricity reduction competition for colleges and universities in the world. Last year, they saved 2.2 million kWh .

Website:

http://www.competetoreduce.org/

What is Campus Conservation Nationals?

How does it work?

Planning – Takes the longest period of time. We will talk more about that later.

*Baseline Period – 2 weeks long

*Competition period -3 weeks long

Prizes are given out to top 10 schools with largest electricity reduction.

* Must be during competition season of February through April 2015.

How does it work ? (cont.)

How will students be engaged?

How does it work ? (cont.)

Students can easily track how their building is doing in comparison with other buildings in the competition.

ODU website is pending development.

http://buildingdashboard.net/odu/#/odu

How does it work ? (cont.)

Its free and open to all. However, the University can elect to award top performers which has an associated cost.

Case study – Brown University’s total budget in 2012 was $3600. This amount was used for t-shirts, a trophy, ice cream social, marketing materials, and Residence Life programming.

What is the cost to participate in the program?

The following 20 residence halls will participate in the competition. ◦ Quad (Dominion, France, England, Scotland,

Ireland, and Virginia Houses)◦ Gresham Complex◦ Rogers Complex◦ ODU Inn◦ University Village Apartments◦ Whitehurst Hall

Plan

Baseline period (****unannounced****) - January 25th, 2015 – February 7th, 2015

Competition period -February 8th – February 28th, 2015

Plan (Cont.)

Some examples include….

Adjust HVAC temperature set points (if allowed) Adjust computer power setting so it goes in standby after 5

minutes of inactivity. Air dry laundry instead of using electric dryer. Take stairs instead of elevator. Turn off lights in bathrooms and common spaces at night Keep windows closed with A/C or heat is on. Turn off lights in unoccupied public spaces when you see them

on Unplug appliances that are not being used to eliminate

phantom loads.

How will students reduce electrical consumption?

Chad Luettel - Competition Director

Brendan O’Hallarn- Marketing Manager

Dillard George – Director, Facilities Management

April Hicks Konvalinka –

Executive Director, Housing

Team members:

Building Captain Manager (TBD)– Representative of student govt. or sponsoring student group. Work with Building Captains (RAs). Responsible for recruiting and training building captains.

Behavior Change Manager – (TBD)

Pursue partnerships with campus groups that might be interested in partnering, such as Residential Life.

Events Manager (TBD)– Plan and implement competition events to generate and maintain energy and excitement.

Suggested team members (cont):

Timeline

Dates Task to be accomplished Personal Involved

December 8th-23rd , 2014 Recruiting team members Competition Team

December 19th, 2014 Letter of Commitment Due Competition Team

January 14th, 2015 (Wednesday) @ 10AM Meeting 1 - Planning meeting Competition Team

January 21st, 2015 (Wednesday) @ 10AM Meeting 2 - Discuss competition logo, prizes, marketing Competition Team

January 25th - February 7th, 2015 Baseline Period (***Unannounced***) Competition Team

January 28th, 2015 (Wednesday) @ 10AM Meeting 3 - Discuss how baseline period is going thus far. Competition Team

February 4th, 2015 (Wednesday) @ 10AMMeeting 4 - All members present plan for

building captains, marketing, behavior change activities

Competition Team

February 8th - March 1st, 2015 Competition window begins !

Event 1 (February 9th or 10th, 2015) Event #1 ODU Campus

Event 2 (February 16th or 17th, 2015) Have students commit to saving electricity in a event at Webb ODU Campus

March 2nd, 2015Meeting 5 - Discuss progress final results, and

the overall process went. Things that went great, items that could be improved.

Competition Team

March 4th, 2015 (Tentative time - 3 PM) Award party for winning residence hall. Winning residence hall in common area - Pizza party and gift

Q&A

Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN)

Dashboard website:

http://buildingdashboard.net/odu/#/odu

CCN website:

http://www.competetoreduce.org/