Catherine Yee and Morgan Johnston met today to explain steps needed to enter UIUC buildings in the Urbana-Champaign Energy Star Challenge. Catherine will enter all the billing data into the Portfolio Manager, and create SEPs for the program.
Two students from the Professional Science Masters (PSM) program are working with sustainability staff this summer. Chandana Konidala is working with the City of Urbana's Environmental Sustainability Manager Scott Tess to promote the Urbana-Champaign Energy Star Challenge. Sarthak Prasad is working on developing a Standard Operating Procedure for entering information in the iCAP Portal.
The original goals for the Urbana-Champaign Energy Star Challenge were to get 50 buildings registered in the challenge and 25 buildings benchmarked. As of today, there are 68 buildings registered in the U-C Energy Star Challenge and 41 benchmark reports (called SEPs) submitted.
There was a news article about surpassing the goals in July in the News-Gazette, with a voice recording of an interview with Scott Tess, City of Urbana Sustainability Manager.
Brian Yeung is planning to enter energy use data for some of the University Housing residence halls into the EPA Portfolio Manager. He is going to use the same username and password as Nishant is using for other campus buildings.
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Morgan Johnston and Nishant Makhijani met today to discuss entering campus buildings in the U-C Energy Star Challenge competition. Each building entered into the system will take 30-60 minutes to enter the data. We are going to start with Nishant entering the data for the following buildings:
There are 48 buildings signed up. There will be a luncheon on April 21 during Earth Week on campus. The lunch is for celebrating the participants, and for them to invite potential participants to join us and help expand the program.
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The cities of Urbana and Champaign along with several partners are preparing to launch the Urbana-Champaign Energy Star Challenge. The Challenge is designed to engage businesses in our community to reduce energy consumption in their buildings. The local business will be using a web application to benchmark and track their energy use. The CSE is seeking student volunteers to help businesses in this endeavor. Volunteers will be trained to use the app, and will then assist local businesses in the process of using the web application for the Challenge. Training is expected to occur before Thanksgiving Break. If you are someone who would like to connect with others in the community and especially local businesses, we want you! To sign up for this opportunity, please fill out the registration form.
The Urbana Climate Action Plan’s Goal 1: Action 1 calls for creating “programs to encourage businesses to retrofit existing buildings.” The U-C Kilowatt Crackdown will challenge businesses and property managers to benchmark their buildings’ 2013 energy performance on the free Energy Star Portfolio Manager and then track and improve their energy performance for 2014. This program may be replicable the following year dependent on participation and future interest.
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