In order to participate in the NCEC, you must get your Facilities Management or Physical Plant staff to provide you with the following data set:
Required data for baseline (Feb. '05-'07) and competition (Feb. '08):
- Total kilowatt hours (kWh) (electricity) the whole campus consumed during each February.
- Number of billing days for electricity in each February (not always Feb 1-Feb 28)
- Total BTU the whole campus consumed during each February. The amount of fuel oil, natural gas, or other fuel should be converted (see Appendix).
- Number of billing days for heating fuel in each February.
- Number of Heating Degree Days (HDDs) reported in each February (use heating bills or if HDDs are not recorded ask Facilities for help looking up HDDs on local atmospheric records).
- The number of full-time equivalents (students) enrolled during each February.
You are invited to provide additional information not required in competition monitoring:
- Weekly reporting during Feb. 2008 of kWh and BTU as a percentage of the baseline and as a percent reduction of 1/4th of the baseline.
- Converting heating and electricity consumption into carbon emissions (requires knowledge of your electrical utility's carbon intensity).
- Major campus changes affecting energy use, including expansion/ renovation of campus, installation of alternative heating, heating with electricity, or producing unmeasured electricity on-campus. These variables cannot be factored into the competition but can provide insights into how to do this better in the future.
When you sign up for NCEC with your regional coordinator, your name will be entered into a database. We will email you a survey asking you for your data starting in December. If possible, please submit your data by the end of Fall Semester. The final deadline for submission for the 2005-2007 data is February 5! To submit the data, contact your regional coordinator. He/she will also be able to answer any questions you may have. For more information on NCEC data, see the Appendix.
