Energy Efficiency - Colleges & Universities

Thankfully, many of these challenges have already been solved via successful project collaborations of campus personnel and industry vendors. Leveraging this precedent is an efficient way for University & College facilities, energy & sustainability professionals to tackle operational demands on their own campus.
Thankfully, many of these challenges have already been solved via successful project collaborations of campus personnel and industry vendors. Leveraging this precedent is an efficient way for University & College facilities, energy & sustainability professionals to tackle operational demands on their own campus.
Facilities Management, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability professionals in Colleges & Universities face an array of economic, regulatory & and operating challenges while trying to optimize campus assets. Challenging budgets in tandem with an increasing focus on sustainable operations results in ever increasing and onerous operating demands from multiple stakeholders.
Here are 4

Innovative Energy Efficiency Financing
Aberystwyth University used a 100% interest free, capital finance loan to deliver £613,753 of energy efficiency projects across the University campus

HVAC Optimization
Reducing the speed of the supply air fan and lowering the operating time of the return air fan to a minimum, savings of more than 50% have been made in a lecture theatre ventilation system's power consumption

Improved Energy Usage Monitoring
University Cuts Utility Costs by 15% After Implementing a Utility Tracking System

Peak Demand Avoidance
California college reduces peak demand energy consumption with Thermal Energy Storage
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photovoltaic cooling Case Study A PV-powered, direct-drive centrifugal chiller by Gree is currently being installed at Teheran University, Iran (Summer 2015). The 11,60sq m PV array will generate around 233kW to power the 340RT cooling capacity centrifugal machine, and is expected to be operational in the Autumn of 2015. The array is being installed in two stages, the first supplying 116kW or half the power requirement, with the remaining 5