From Main President Luis Trujillo:
Please turn off all electrical devices that you can [from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.]. Here are some tips:
1. In an hour long period, unplugging a fridge will not raise the temperature enough to make food go bad!
2. In an hour long period, your laptop, cellphone, and ipod can all probably survive on battery power.
3. Lights on? Turn them off! Daylight is better for you anyways!
4. Now is the time to unplug all the plugs that you don't have use for. Leaving things plugged in that don't need to be or don't actually serve a purpose consumes energy too!
5. That hi-fi system can wait for an hour, can't it? Use headphones!
6. Turn off lights in bathrooms and common areas!
Thank you for your understanding and your cooperation,
Buildings and Grounds Services and the College Committee on Sustainability
| SPRiNKLES's Take: Apparently Vassar gets paid to do this... Hey, if it helps reduce my tuition costs (e.g., in the form of more financial aid), or helps improve campus services, I'm all for it! Besides, what's an HOUR, anyway? 60 minutes! psh. Easy stuff! |
2 comments:
how does vassar get paid for this?
I didn't include this because the post was getting longish, but this is also from the e-mail from Luis:
Vassar belongs to Energy Curtailment Services. At any given time, within a 24 hour period, ECS will call for a curtailment of electrical consumption for a one hour period and pay us for the curtailment.
...Yea, so it's basically a way for New York to encourage colleges (and I assume businesses, as well) to reduce the amount of energy they consume, so as to lighten the load on the power grid.
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