1. THE GREEN CAMPUS CHALLENGE - AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TOWARDS
FOSTERING ENERGY EFFICIENCY I NUNIVERSITY CAMPUSES
1ST International Conference on Energy Environment and Sustainability
26-27 September 2012 – ISEP, Porto
2. Potencial for reduction in energy demand
• One of the key focus aspects from the EU Energy Efficiency Plan of 2011 is the
role that public sector buildings may have in fostering energy efficiency.
• Publicly owned or occupied buildings represent about 12% of the area of the
EU building stock and it is estimated that the public sector typically
represents 5-10% of the whole energy use in EU Member States
316 Higher education institutions
≈ 391.000 Students
≈ 25.000 Staff
3. An inclusive approach to all
actors in the higher education sector
STUDENTS
FACULTY TECHNICAL STAFF
Energy Eficciency Plan
Technical Behavioral
Measures Measures
Best measures suggested for
policy orientation and
implementation
4. Green Campus Timeline
Jul. - Dec. 2011
•Webinars
•Teams registration
•Youtube and Slideshare channels
•Technical visits in each university
Jul. - Dec. 2012
•Awards ceremony
Jan. - Jun. 2012 •iTunes channel
launched
•Energy audits in each
•Publication of best
university
practices manual
•Newsletter publication
•Projects delivery
•Evaluation of the projects
and presentation of the 12
Jan. - Jun. 2011 best projects to the jury
•Website and Facebook launch
•Public sessions and universities registration
5. • Jury´s members
• Awards
1st prize: 6.000 €
2nd prize: 3.000 €
3rd prize: 1.500 €
Best behavioral measure: 1.500 €
Best technical measure: 1.500 €
6. The Green Campus in numbers
81 Registered teams from 28 higher
education institutions
Participants, including
320 students, faculty and staff
Projects presented from 22
29 buildings and 17 institutions
12 Finalists
≈ 2.2 GWh/year ≈ 1056 ton CO2/year
Identified energy savings CO2 emissions avoided
7. Teams composition
81
Registered teams
Teams Composition Students academic background
Staff
PhD
2%
7%
Faculty
11% Bsc.
47%
Students Master
46%
12 teams
Finalist
87%
8. 12 Finalist Teams
Best Energy, IPVC
E Factor, FC/UL
Eco2green, FEUC
EcoLogic, FF/UL
Esquadrão Classe A++, FC/UL
IPB Green Campus, IPB
LEEC – IPT, IPT
ISEP – TF, ISEP
Team A++, IST/UTL
TechBioEnergy, IPB
VIS – renovate, ISMAT
Zero Building, ESAC
9. Some results – 12 best projects
• 2.240.784 € of investment
• Avoided electricity: 1.122.920 kWh/yr.
• Avoided natural gas: 700.036 kWh/yr.
• Avoided greenhouse gas emissions 1.056 CO2/yr.
• 9 years of return period in average (5,75 yrs. if thermal refurbishment
measures are not taken into account)
10. Some results – 12 best projects
Category Measures Team
Switches installation Team A++
Presence detectors Zero Building
Lighting Elevator lighting Esquadrão Classe A++
Reduction of the lighting schedule ISEP TF
Presence detectors ISEP TF
Installation of a chiller in the roof ISEP TF
Climatization Sectioning of the heating circuits IPB Green Campus
Windows isolation Zero Building
Photovoltaic systems E factor
Renewables Parking lot requalification EcoLogic
Photovoltaic skin Team A++
Management PC´s substitution Zero Building
Retrofit Reinforcement of thermal isolation VIS-renovate
Behavioral Awareness program Ecologic
Data center cooling systems IPB Green Campus
Others Frequency changer Zero Building
Ecube installation Esquadrão Classe A++
11. Some results – 12 best projects
Investment (€) by energy efficiency measure type and
average pay-back period
1.200.000 30
Average pay-back period (years)
1.000.000 25
Investment (euros)
800.000 20
600.000 15
400.000 10
200.000 5
0 0
Lighting Heating & Renewable Manag. & Thermal Behavioral
Cooling Energy Maintenance Retrofit measures
Investment pay-back period (years)
12. Some results – 12 best projects
Investment (€) by measures category and avoided energy
(kWh/yr.)
1,200,000 800,000
700,000
1,000,000
600,000
800,000
500,000
600,000 400,000
Investment
300,000
400,000
200,000
Avoided energy
200,000
100,000 (Elect. + Nat. Gas)
0 0
13. Some results
1,400
1,200
0,077 €/kWh
0,070 €/kWh
1,000
0,101 €/kWh
Savings in electricity (MWh/yr.)
800
600
0,058 €/kWh
400
200 0,045 €/kWh
0
> 50%electricity savings will be below 0,10€/kWh
The
14. Challenges and next steps
• Promoting a stronger participation from the faculty and technical
staff
• Expanding the collection and analysis of the buildings data to all the
participating teams, and making a compilation of all the collected
data for research
• Implementation of some of the best measures
• Launching of a best practices book
• Launching the Green Campus Challenge for 2013