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Kristiahn Alvarado& Sarah Gilchrist

PowerSave Campus InternEnergy Analyst

UCSC

UCSC Cold Water Wash2014 CHESC

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Cold Water Wash Campaign Background

• New program goal implemented: 600 therms savings per year• KPI encourages search for natural gas-reduction projects to address:

– Climate change & local GHG implications– Upcoming regulation on emissions– Financial & non-financial incentives to reduce consumption

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Cold Water Wash Campaign Background

• Residents of College Eight were asked to switch their laundry wash to cold water

• 4 Quads (A, B, C, D) competed against each other• A winner was selected by comparison of week to

week data showing who reduced their natural gas usage the most.

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Cold Water Wash Campaign Goals

• Get students of College Eight to save natural gas

• Collaborate with Residential Life of College Eight

• Promote Green Education on natural gas usage and water conservation

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Cold Water Wash Metrics

• Direct interaction with 750 students• Pre-Surveys from 200 students

• Only 20% of students asked had already washed their clothes on the cold cycle

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Cold Water Wash Metrics1,577 therms saved!

• Multiple Savings Metrics:‐ NG therm reduction from each individual cold vs. hot water wash‐ reduced demand over time‐ behavior change

• Multiple Methods:‐ calculation using known, observed and estimated parameters‐ utility meter data, normalized for the other loads on the meter

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Project Outreach

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Lessons Learned• Collaboration with students is much

easier than previously thought• Incentives, incentives, incentives!

– Gift Cards• Inspire other UCSC colleges to bring

this campaign to their students• Lack of response to post survey

– Post project meetings

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Challenges • Tracking Therms

– The lead energy analyst at UCSC helped us track the therms

– Important to isolate a measureable quantity– Verify with multiple methods of calculation

• look out for confounding variables!– Creative calculation

• Numeric documentation can help replicate a project later

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Challenges • Project Participation

• Constant Outreach • Weekly visual reminders!

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Successes

• Great results in such a short amount of time!• Pilot project• Campus interest

– Sustainability Office at UCSC– PTAGS (Path to a Greener Stevenson)– Other PSC campuses

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Acknowledgements

• Sarah Gilchrist– Energy Analyst at UC Santa Cruz

• Connor Keese– College Eight Residential Coordinator

• All resident assistants from College Eight

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Sarah Gilchrist& Kristiahn AlvaradoPowerSave Campus Intern

Energy AnalystUCSC

[email protected]@gmail.com

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