Power Down Weekend: Results

Well the results of the power down weekend that I posted about before are in and it is the Queen Mother Building that has won by a significant margin. The results are available on the Estates & Buildings page describing the endeavour and are republished here.

College Building Weekend Average use (kWh) Weekend 4th- 7th Dec (kWh) % Savings
Life Sciences Wellcome Trust Building 22,900 21,240 7.25%
CASE Queen Mother Building 3,562 3,206 9.99%
Central Services Dalhousie 4,876 4,732 2.95%
CASS Carnegie Building 925 865 6.49%
CDMN Airlie East 378 365 3.44%

Considering the technology-centric activities of the QMB, it is gratifying that we still managed to significantly reduce our power consumption. That said though, I think that in the case of the QMB we are nearing our base-load for the building and to further reduce our power consumption beyond this point would begin to impact those activities that are the raison detre for the QMB in the first place.

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