Energy Conservation

Working Group Minutes

Meeting Minutes
February 12, 2007

Attendees: Nancy Apple, Dale Hennessey, Rick Bigelow, Ken McKenzie, Deb Morrissey, Molly Buermann, Alison Grantham, Todd Holland

1. 11/13/06 Meeting Minutes Reviewed — Todd
   
2. 12/12/06 EMS Steering Committee Meeting update — Nancy
   
   • Ava Gottschall will be tracking for environmental indices; graph of GHG emissions and energy (thermal/electrical/cogen) use per square foot. This will be presented to Trustees in November.
   • Action: Repackage energy data from Rick and Russ — Todd
     
3. Green Computing and the Million Monitor Drive — Students
   
   • Drive concluded 12/13/06, MHC does not reach 75% goal (981/1300 students), Smith wins three-school challenge, Mead/Porter/MacGregor top residence halls, pizza parties in progress.
     
4. Green Computing faculty/staff campaign
• Kicked off w/email from Nancy 2/9, ends 3/16, Chef Jeff cookies for winning departments, five-step conservation effort.
• Action: Facilities Management and Dining Services to provide computer count to be used rather than head count (not all employees have computers).
• Action: Investigate link for MHC home page — Deb, Nancy
• Action: Communications to do article for News & Events — Nancy
• Add link to LITS home page — Deb
  
5. Administrative and Academic Building Kill-A-Watt
   
   • Top 3 Academic: Sciences, Art, Williston (Kendall and Talcott also above average)
   • Top 3 Administrative: Newhall, Willits-Hallowell, and Dwight (Newhall is #1)
   • Action: Finalize Kill-A-Watt poster for buildings — Todd
     
6. EAC Office Environmental Audits - may happen this semester
   
7. Light Bulb Trade-in or Amnesty - Facilities Management has stick of 500 CFLs
   
8. Next Green Partners 2/12/07
   
9. New Business, lighting controls:
   
   • Discussed lighting controls for large classrooms: Cleveland lecture halls, Hooker Auditorium, Dwight 101. All these areas have vast potential for savings, have obvious problem w/lights being left on, and would represent visible progress.
   • Light controls in Williston Stacks have been repaired, timers working well.
   • Action: Investigate scheduling lights in Cleveland with existing GE system — Todd & Ken
   • Action: Install occupancy sensors in one classroom per month — Todd & Ken
   • Action: Make poster for Hooker Auditorium asking users to shut-off lights as they leave (need volunteer)
   • Bathrooms are also opportunity for occupancy sensor controls, provided that certain performance requirements are met.
   • Action: Add sensors to this summer's renovation in Prospect — Rick
   • Lights in Ham and MacGregor lounges and cafes represent far more load than corridors and stairs (data from Ken). Is dimming required? Can sensors be installed?
   • Action: Assess need for dimming in MacGregor cafe and lounge — Molly
     
10. New Business, Energy Tip of the Month — Nancy
    
    • Todd has created set of generic energy tips.
    • Action: Can these go out as all-campus email, as a link? (who?)
    • Action: Can these be spotlighted in MHC News? (who?)
    • Action: Shall we establish web page highlighting good and bad practices, green thumb/brown thumb or "getting caught green handed" promotion? (who?)
      
11. New Business, Purchasing
    
    • Need new standard for floor lamps and table lamps that do not use screw-in compact fluorescent lamps. Three-way lamps are expensive and tend to "walk." Plug-in lamps are cheaper, greener (you don't throw out ballast w/dead lamp), and cannot use incandescents.
    • Action: Provide specs/model compatible w/decor in dorms like North Rockefeller — Todd