6 Stage 3 – GGC Project Read Your Meter, Report Your Savings – 2pts OVERVIEW: Did you know that your students can easily read your school’s electrical meter? With a few simple steps students can determine how much energy your school is using per day. Students can then compare how much energy your school is currently using to the baseline energy usage provided by the DPS Go Green Challenge. The meter reading activity allows your school to get real time feedback on how your schools is doing without having wait for the official analysis of the energy bills. PROCEDURE: 1) Talk to your Facility Manager – While reading the meter is easy, you will need your facility manager’s assistance to find and access the meter. Check the number of meters you have and verify this with your facility manager. If you have more than one meter, you will need to read and sum all meters to get an accurate comparison to your baseline. Please contact us if you have questions about this. 2) Prepare – Talk to your students about the importance of saving energy-- your AmeriCorps Green School Coordinators can help guide these discussions. Review the instructions and worksheet to ensure your students record an accurate reading. 3) Take the Meter Readings and Calculate Average Daily Use - A meter reading picture guide and step-by-step calculation worksheet are included in this project. We suggest your sustainability patrol team take meter readings during their patrols. a. Take a 1 st meter reading b. Take a 2 nd meter reading 3 to 14 days later, whenever it is convenient. A longer interval will likely yield a more accurate average daily usage. c. Calculate your average daily use by taking the difference between the two readings and dividing by the number of days between readings. 4) Compare your daily use with the baseline – You will calculate your average daily use twice during the Energy Challenge. You may want to do this near the beginning and end of the energy challenge or during a week of heavy school use compared to a week of break to gauge the effectiveness of your Power Down for the Holidays! Earn a GGC Point – To earn 2 GGC points for this project simply complete two calculations of your school’s daily energy use any time during the Energy and Water Challenge, Dec. 1 st – March 31 st . Submit two Daily Use Calculation Worksheets by April 8 th to [email protected]or to your AmeriCorps Coordinator.
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Step 2 – Take a meter reading at a specific time during the day
__________ X ___________ = __________________ Kw h Multiplier 1st meter reading
Step 3 – Take a 2nd meter reading at the same specific time a number of days later
__________ X ___________ = __________________ Kw h Multiplier 2nd meter reading
Step 4 – Subtract your 1st meter reading from your 2nd meter reading
_________________ - ________________ = __________________ 2nd meter reading 1st meter reading Energy used
Step 5 – Divide the energy used by the number of days between readings
_____________ ÷ ____________________ = ___________________ Energy used Days between reading Average Daily Use
Step 6 – Compare your actual average daily use that you calculated in step 5 to your school’s baseline from step 1! If you have more than one meter, repeat steps 1-5 and add the daily uses together to compare to the baseline.