Sarah Schneider

1
Energy Auditing Seminars

• Sarah Schneider
• Green Campus Program Coordinator
• Humboldt State University

2
Green Campus at HSU

• 2004 pilot campus
• Award-winning program
• 5 student program coordinators
• 10 academic credit interns
• 3-pronged approach to saving
• energy at HSU
• Generating hard energy savings
• Energy education
• Networking/collaborations to
• institutionalize sustainability

3
The Seminar

• Greening Our Campus An Introduction to Energy
  Auditing
• September 2008
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Richard Engel, SERC
• HSU Extended Education Program
• Open to students community members
• Opportunity to earn credit
• 17 attendees, inc. 2 GC interns

4
Rationale

• Build awareness
• Expand our sphere of influence
• Opportunity to recruit and train potential
  volunteers
• Provide students and community members with job
  skills and info on energy efficiency

5
Objectives

• Teach participants the skills needed to assist
  with GC energy audits of HSU campus facilities
• Teach participants the basics of institutional,
  commercial and residential energy auditing

6
Marketing

• University Weekly Announcements
• Fliers on and off campus
• Ext Ed Catalog mailers
• In-class announcements
• HSU GC website
• Blog site
• GC Coalition listserv
• Tribal listservs
• RCEA website
• Local radio stations

7
Seminar Syllabus

• Introduction
• Energy basics
• Safety
• Energy use and energy costs
• Energy auditing practices
• Lighting
• Office energy audit process protocol
• Heat loss and building shell
• Space heating and cooling
• Water heating
• Tool Time
• Energy economics
• Information resources
• Field exercise
• Report back and closing

8
Practice Audit

• Reported as favorite part of the seminar
• Broke up into groups and measured energy
  consumption of various classroom equipment
• Reported back findings
• Result gained group of dedicated volunteers --gt
  new spring 2009 interns!

9
Evaluations

• Course credit given based on attendance and
  participation
• Distributed course evaluations to participants
• Overwhelmingly positive
• Many requests for a 2-day seminar

10
Spring 2009 Seminar

• Collaborating with SERC, Ext Edu RCEA
• 2-day seminar
• City of Arcatas Community Center

11

• Thank you!
• Sarah Schneider
• Green Campus Program Coordinator
• Humboldt State University
• sys2_at_humboldt.edu
• www.humboldt.edu/greenhsu
• greenhsu_at_humboldt.edu