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LINKS Campus Energy Office Campus Energy Projects Campus Energy Consumption and Monitoring UH Center for Smart Building and Community Design Chancellor's Energy Summit Campus Energy Community Press Releases and Articles State of Hawaii Energy Information National Energy Information Useful Energy Sites HOME	NEW PROJECT! Incandescent Search-And-Destroy Current Known Incandescent Count:1,495 (as of October 8, 2008) Number of Incandescents Replaced/Removed so far: 243 (the easy ones, and some of the more tricky ones) Annual Savings from Replacement/Removal: $14,141 Per Year (our electricity rate is approximately 20.8 cents per KWh) Average Savings Per Bulb: $58 Per Year (this number will go down as the worst offenders are replaced and we move on to less egregious users). There are literally thousands of incandescent lightbulbs all over campus...the trouble is, we don't know where they are! Help us change them! Replacing a 65 watt bulb that burns only 10 hours per day will save $50 a year - and many of the bulbs found so far burn 24/7. HOW YOU CAN HELP If you know of the location of an incandescent light that should be changed out, call 956-7031 and we'll arrange for its immediate replacement. If you aren't sure what kind of bulb it is, we'll send someone to take a look. Please don't change them on your own, we want to keep a record of how many we catch :) Thanks in advance for your help! The new bulbs are being paid for by the UH Manoa Energy Efficiency Fund (see below). ______________________________________________________ Sea Grant Launches Campus Energy Efficiency Fund The UH Manoa Campus Energy Efficiency Fund has been set up through the UH Foundation. The purpose of this fund is to provide seed money or full funding for small energy efficiency projects, such as lightbulb replacement, in particular projects that are developed and executed by students. The fund is currently at $3,000, supported by small contributions from faculty, staff, and students and some outside individuals. These funds were raised by Olwen Huxley as sponsorship for her racing at the Ironman World Championships on Kona this October. It is hoped that this amount can be increased by future contributions from larger donors. The size of the projects funded will expand in proportion to the amount of money in the fund. The long-term plan for this fund is to convert all or part of it into a revolving loan account which will be able to sustain itself by recieving part of the savings from each project. At present such a scheme is hard to implement because of the lack of accurate data on electricity consumption for campus buildings (see the metering project under "Campus Energy Projects", as well as the lack of a formal mechanism for energy savings to be directed to specific groups or individuals. For more information on how Campus Revolving Loan Funds work, the following publication "Creating a Campus Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund: A Guide for Students" produced by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). ________________________________________________ Policy Goals for UH Manoa Energy Efficiency On October 24, 2006, Chancellor Konan convened an energy summit with broad participation by the university community and university partners such as HECO. The purpose of the summit was to launch a campaign of energy conservation, efficiency, and awareness whose objective is to achieve the following long-term goals: A 30% reduction of campus-wide energy use by 2012, based on a 2003 campus energy benchmark. A 50% reduction of campus-wide energy use by 2015, based on a 2003 campus energy benchmark 25% of campus-wide energy use supplied by renewable sources by 2020 By 2050, the Manoa campus will achieve self-sufficiency in energy and water, and will treat and transform its wastes into useable resources through its actions to conserve and re-use, and through its adoption of renewable energy technologies. For additional information on the summit, including the draft energy plan, please click on the "Chancellor's Energy Summit" link in the left-hand margin of this page.	MORE LINKS Energy Star University of Hawaii Sustainability Office Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy PARTNERS HECO UH-HECO Partnership Charter 2007.pdf Last Updated 04/07/08
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NEW PROJECT!

Incandescent Search-And-Destroy

Current Known Incandescent Count:1,495 (as of October 8, 2008)

Number of Incandescents Replaced/Removed so far: 243 (the easy ones, and some of the more tricky ones)

Annual Savings from Replacement/Removal: $14,141 Per Year (our electricity rate is approximately 20.8 cents per KWh)

Average Savings Per Bulb: $58 Per Year (this number will go down as the worst offenders are replaced and we move on to less egregious users).

There are literally thousands of incandescent lightbulbs all over campus...the trouble is, we don't know where they are! Help us change them! Replacing a 65 watt bulb that burns only 10 hours per day will save $50 a year - and many of the bulbs found so far burn 24/7.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

If you know of the location of an incandescent light that should be changed out, call 956-7031 and we'll arrange for its immediate replacement. If you aren't sure what kind of bulb it is, we'll send someone to take a look. Please don't change them on your own, we want to keep a record of how many we catch :) Thanks in advance for your help! The new bulbs are being paid for by the UH Manoa Energy Efficiency Fund (see below).

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Sea Grant Launches Campus Energy Efficiency Fund

The UH Manoa Campus Energy Efficiency Fund has been set up through the UH Foundation. The purpose of this fund is to provide seed money or full funding for small energy efficiency projects, such as lightbulb replacement, in particular projects that are developed and executed by students.

The fund is currently at $3,000, supported by small contributions from faculty, staff, and students and some outside individuals. These funds were raised by Olwen Huxley as sponsorship for her racing at the Ironman World Championships on Kona this October. It is hoped that this amount can be increased by future contributions from larger donors. The size of the projects funded will expand in proportion to the amount of money in the fund.

The long-term plan for this fund is to convert all or part of it into a revolving loan account which will be able to sustain itself by recieving part of the savings from each project. At present such a scheme is hard to implement because of the lack of accurate data on electricity consumption for campus buildings (see the metering project under "Campus Energy Projects", as well as the lack of a formal mechanism for energy savings to be directed to specific groups or individuals.

For more information on how Campus Revolving Loan Funds work, the following publication "Creating a Campus Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund: A Guide for Students" produced by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

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Policy Goals for UH Manoa Energy Efficiency

On October 24, 2006, Chancellor Konan convened an energy summit with broad participation by the university community and university partners such as HECO. The purpose of the summit was to launch a campaign of energy conservation, efficiency, and awareness whose objective is to achieve the following long-term goals:

A 30% reduction of campus-wide energy use by 2012, based on a 2003 campus energy benchmark.

A 50% reduction of campus-wide energy use by 2015, based on a 2003 campus energy benchmark

25% of campus-wide energy use supplied by renewable sources by 2020

By 2050, the Manoa campus will achieve self-sufficiency in energy and water, and will treat and transform its wastes into useable resources through its actions to conserve and re-use, and through its adoption of renewable energy technologies.

For additional information on the summit, including the draft energy plan, please click on the "Chancellor's Energy Summit" link in the left-hand margin of this page.