Total Rooms on campus: 2,458<\/p>\n
Energy Cost per kWh: $0.102<\/p>\n
kWh per day calculations:<\/strong><\/p>\n (.25h x\u00a0 .0139kW) + (.25h x .0236kW) + (9h x .0196kW) + (5h x .0336kW)\u00a0= 0.353775 kWh\/day<\/p>\n Student Average Usage per Day<\/strong><\/p>\n (0.1491 kWh\/day) + (0.353775 kWh\/day) \/ 2 = 0.25144 kWh\/day<\/p>\n Student use per academic year<\/strong><\/p>\n 0.25144 kWh\/day x 220 days = 55.3168 kWh<\/p>\n Student cost to the college<\/strong><\/p>\n 55.3168 kWh x 0.102 $\/kWh = $5.64<\/p>\n All students\u2019 use per day<\/strong><\/p>\n 0.25144 kWh\/day x 2,458 rooms = 618.03952 kWh\/day<\/p>\n All students\u2019 use per academic year<\/strong><\/p>\n 618.03952 kWh\/day x 220 days = 135,968.6944 kWh<\/p>\n Approximate cost to the college<\/strong><\/p>\n 135,968.6944 kWh x 0.102 $\/kWh = $13,868.81<\/p>\n Our project attempted to estimate the amount of energy used in the dorm rooms of Vassar students, and the cost to the college for that usage. In order to do this, both Irene and I measured the wattage of the electronic devices in our rooms, which can be seen here<\/a> and here<\/a>. We then tracked the time these devices were active over the course of three days to determine our average energy usage in a day. This average was then used to calculate the cost to the college for this use over the course of an academic year, which amounted to a surprisingly low total of total of $5.64. Given our original premise to determine what percentage of our room and board fees goes towards electricity, we found that our actual usage costs amount to 0.054%.<\/p>\n We then used the same average to approximate the cost of all the students on campus, which amounted to 135,968.6944 kWh at a cost of $13,868.81. While these numbers do not take into account the energy consumed by the original overhead lights in place on the dorm rooms, the cost to the college is still less than expected. An interesting feature that developed out of our study was the realization that refrigerators do not use a constant amount of energy to maintain their temperature. While initial readings gave extremely high wattage values (many times greater than all other electronics totaled), this level was not constant. Had the highest level of wattage been the energy used by the fridge constantly over a 24 hour period, we would have seen a staggering 2,162% increase in energy use! While we didn\u2019t get the opportunity to study the refrigerators over a longer period of time, it would be interesting to see how often the high level of energy output is keep constant temperature.<\/p>\n Overall, our project demonstrated the extremely high energy usage at Vassar College. Without even measuring the light bulbs in our own rooms, let alone the lights in every room of campus (many of which are on 24-7) we approximated that we consume 135,968.6944 kWh in an academic year. While the cost of this usage may seem manageable, especially given the high cost of room and board, it does shed some light on how much we’re costing on the grand scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Total Rooms on campus: 2,458 Energy Cost per kWh: $0.102 kWh per day calculations: (.25h x\u00a0 .0139kW) + (.25h x .0236kW) + (9h x .0196kW) + (5h x .0336kW)\u00a0= 0.353775 kWh\/day Student Average Usage per Day (0.1491 kWh\/day) + (0.353775 kWh\/day) \/ 2 = 0.25144 kWh\/day Student use per academic year 0.25144 kWh\/day x 220 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5612,5512,5585],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cost","tag-energy-consumption","tag-watts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}