Energy Meters (2011 Strategic Plan)

Installation of energy meters and monitoring devices in all campus buildings will enable students and faculty to track energy¬-consumption data, both for research purposes and to build awareness to effect change.

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 * This is vitally important to energy sustainability on campus. Often projects which may provide energy savings have no current means to analyze effectiveness and/or project ROI because we have no data on how much energy individual building use on campus at present.
 * Ditto. After doing a footprinting project for Fred Wirth's class, I changed my energy use habits because yeah--you never really get it until you see the numbers. This could be huge. Ellen Green
 * I also like this idea. Would it be necessary to install new meters/monitoring devices on all the buildings, or are there some existing systems that just aren't currently being used?  Rebecca Thomas, F'07