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How well do your building's occupants work with you to reduce energy consumption? Energy reduction contests and competitions are very successful at generating building occupant awareness and engagement that lead to energy savings and a positive change in mindset toward energy conservation measures.This free, informative webinar on engaging building occupants in energy reduction featured Owen Rogers, Pulse Energy's Competitions Lead. Owen used his experience in organizing occupant engagement initiatives for Pulse Energy's clients to: - provide insights into competitions that have reduced energy use by up to 16% - explain how competitions make building occupants more receptive to further energy conservation measures - make suggestions on how you can make savings generated by competitions persist in the long term - offer specific tips to make your occupant awareness and engagement initiative successful
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Pulse Energy Webinar:
Using Energy Contests to
Reduce Building Energy
Use
May 6, 2011
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Poll Results
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Poll Results Continued
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More Poll Results
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Owen Rogers - @exortech
Pulse Energy, Competitions Lead
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Why engage occupants?
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Common Motivations
• Organization commitments
• Quick and easy win
• Raise awareness
• Green marketing
• Research
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Energy savings without capital cost
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Traditional focus: awareness and altruism
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Human social dynamics
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Social
Competitiveness
Fun
Feedback
Work with human nature
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Ideas for occupant engagement
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Competitions
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Our experience
• 9 competitions
• universities, offices
buildings, government
• 1 to 10 buildings
• 1 week – 3 months
• over 600 participants
• multiple time zones
• multiple countries
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Results
• 1-2 weeks: 5-20%
• 1-3 months: 2-5% savings
• Up to 7% savings over 6 months
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• Energy savings focus
• See what’s possible
• Empowerment – changing norms
• Ideas for further changes
• Persistent savings
Results
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Observations
• HVAC tuning often has biggest impact
• real-time is key
• lighting is easiest
• plug load is hard
• operational changes are most
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#winning
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Pulse™ Competitions
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Competition as a race
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Energy savings as distance
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Visualizing savings
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Savings: actual vs baseline
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Comparing buildings
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Handicap: fuel efficiency
Assessing energy savings potential
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1. Total consumption
2. Efficiency
4. Influence
3. Control
5. Commitment
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Assessing energy savings potential
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Assessing energy savings potential
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Observations
• Control is most important
• Control + commitment yield best results
• Efficiency is not as important
• Easier to save in smaller buildings
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Tips
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Tip: pick a date
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Tip: run a trial
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Tip: identify champions
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Tip: set a goal
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Tip: have a kickoff
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Tip: do food
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Tip: use themes
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Tip: synchronize events
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Tip: offer prizes
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Tip: run a survey
•Pick a date
•Conduct a trial
•Identify champions
•Set a goal
•Have a kickoff
•Do food
•Use themes
•Synchronized events
•Offer prizes
•Run a survey41
Tip: run a survey
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Challenges
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Challenge: consistency
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Challenge: persistent savings
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Challenge: fun vs fairness
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Challenge: sprint vs marathon
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More than competitions
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Pulse™ for day to day operations
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Pulse™ for day to day operations
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Pulse™ for measurement & verification
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Questions?
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Questions?
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Questions?
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Questions?
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Questions?
Thank you!
•Additional questions? Contact Pulse Energy
•1-877-331-0530
•http://www.pulseenergy.com/company/contact
•More energy management best practices
•On-demand webinars:
http://www.pulseenergy.com/resources/energy-
management-webinars/
•Pulse blog: http://blog.pulseenergy.com/
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