POWER OF YOU LIGHT OUT CHALLENGE RESULTS
Power of You volunteers completed a visual tally of all offices, meeting rooms, classrooms, and laboratories that directly and indirectly participated in the one-hour challenge. The Sustainability Office with the assistance of Facilities Management monitored the energy use of each academic/administration building the day before the event and the day of the event and tabulated the results. Based on the number of audited spaces, the campus participation rate was 48.9%.
The participation winner was Reichwald Health Sciences Centre with 75.4% of the building turning off their lights. 2nd place: Creative and Critical Studies with 65.7% of the building turning off their lights.
The conservation winner was Science reporting a 28.4% decrease in energy consumption. 2nd place: Reichwald Health Sciences Centre reporting a 17.5% decrease in energy consumption.
UBC Okanagan Campus conserved 2,322.63 kWh during the 1hr challenge. This is enough energy saved to power 2.33 residential refrigerators for 1 year! If the campus conserved this amount every noon hour for an entire year this would equal $44,083.52/year!
| Participation | Conserved kWh | Reduction % | |
| ADM | 55.9% | 169.73 kWh | -8.7% |
| ARTS | 28.1% | 306.43 kWh | -16.4% |
| ASII | 48.5% | consumed 12.29 kWh more | 0.7% |
| CCS | 65.7% | 81.79 kWh | -8.4% |
| EME | 57.3% | 374.44 kWh | -6.9% |
| FIP | 37.2% | 162.85 kWh | -7.7% |
| LIB | 50.0% | 114.06 kWh | -7.2% |
| RHS | 75.4% | 348.66 kWh | -17.5% |
| SCI | 44.0% | 919.04 kWh | -28.4% |
| UNC | 28.6% | consumed 142.08 kWh more | 5.7% |
For more information on the 2017 results, click here.