UBC staff help save energy during Seasonal Shutdown

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A worker in the Campus Energy Centre

This past December, departments, building operators and energy managers across UBC joined together to reduce the university’s environmental footprint over the winter holiday by participating in the Seasonal Shutdown.

This annual campus-wide campaign incorporates energy-saving operations with a staff and faculty challenge to complete energy and heat-saving tasks before the holiday annual shutdown.

UBC’s building operators and energy managers collaborated behind the scenes to lower the temperature in buildings across campus during the shutdown period (December 25, 2019 to January 1, 2020). Their actions resulted in significant savings. Overall savings included an estimated 900,000 kWh of electricity, 3,000 GJ of natural gas, 150 tonnes of carbon reduced. These actions saved the university approximately $90,000.whole

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