Welcome to the Baker Libby Power Show Down Competition

Register to Win

See Who's Winning!!

NEW END DATE!

The competition period has been extended through Sunday November 23rd. This competition is currently only open to residents of Baker and Libby Halls.

This year the Environmental Center’s Energy Program is sponsoring an Energy Usage Competition between Baker and Libby Residence Halls. The goal is to see which Hall can cut energy waste, learn to use their energy more wisely and make the biggest reduction on our impact on global warming.

How to win
Who’s winning?
How to enter the competition
The Prizes
How to Save Energy in Your Room
What’s a Watt and a kWh?

How to win

Winning is easy. The Hall that reduces its electricity usage by the biggest percentage wins the competition.

Prizes will be won by randomly-selected students in the winning Hall. So in order for you to win, your Hall has to win.

To make the competition fair, the electricity for the Libby Dining Hall is not
included in Libby's electricity numbers. But because Baker has more people, it
does use more electricity. So the winning Hall is the one that reduces electricity use by the largest percentage over its September and October average. Each Hall's average usage is below.

To help you know who’s in the lead AT ALL TIMES, you can go the Building Dashboard and view real-time electricity use in each Hall.

Who’s winning? Using the Building Dashboard

The key to the competition is a website called the Building Dashboard that allows you to see which Hall is winning, who’s using more electricity at any given time and for past time periods.

To see who's using more electricity in real-time:

Go to the Building Dashboard homepage and click on “Competition.” This shows you who’s reduced their usage by the biggest percentage at this point in the competition. The Hall who’s winning is the one with the biggest percentage decrease.

A green arrow pointing down means the Hall is BELOW the average by that percentage. The right direction to be heading in to win.

A red arrow pointing up means the Hall is ABOVE their average by that percentage. NOT where you want to be going. 

To see who’s using more electricity at any one time:
Go to the Building Dashboard homepage and click on “Electricity.” This shows you how much each Hall is using right now. To see who was ahead yesterday or last week, click on the “History” tab and select the time period.

Using the real-time window you can see the impact of large power down actions, like a night when everyone turns off lights or shuts down their electronics.

Remember, though, that Baker already uses more electricity because it has more people. So you have to figure out who reduced by the bigger percentage compared to averages below.

The average daily use per Hall for the first 3 weeks of October was:

How to Enter the Competition

You must register to be eilgible for the prizes.

This competition is currently only open to student residents of Baker and Libby Halls. Go to the competition registration page to take a quick pledge to save energy, enter your name, email and your Hall. The registration deadline is Sunday, November 9th, one week before the competition ends. Go to registration page.

The Prizes

20 prizes will be awarded to students in the winning Hall in a random drawing
of those students who have registered for the competition. The grand prize is a
$600 gift card for University Bicycles. Other prizes include 9 Solio electronics
chargers, and 10 iPod Shuffles.

How to Save Energy in Your Room

There are lots of ways to save energy, many of these are simple and do not require a sacrifice as many people think. Visit the Energy Saver 360 to see all the ways you can reduce energy use in your room.

What’s a Watt and a kWh?

Information on the Building Dashboard page is provided in watts and kilowatt-hours (kWh). “Watts” are the amount of electric current an electronic (or an entire building full of electronics) is using at one time. The bigger the electronic, the bigger the wattage is uses. For example, a laptop uses about 50 watts of power, a desktop computer and monitor can use over 100 and a large flat screen TV can use more than 150 watts depending how big it is.

KWh stands for “kilowatt-hour” (1000 watt-hours) and is a measure of electricity used over time, in this case -- an hour. A “watt-hour” is the amount of watts used by an electronic for an hour.

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