Our Mission
“Promote energy awareness, accountability and conservation to the Vanderbilt community, our institutional peers and the greater Nashville area; and provide the tools to share energy information, promote an understanding of our consumption, and empower people to affect change.”
The Energy Efficiency and Metering group has a goal of total energy accountability, meaning all utilities are tracked and understood by the Vanderbilt community.
As a large energy consumer, Vanderbilt has a unique opportunity to lower our environmental impact (while saving money) through resource conservation actions such as energy conservation. The university currently meters many utilities at the building level and is working towards completing building-level metering on all buildings on campus, and by tracking and understanding these metrics allows the university to make well-informed decisions on how systems are operating and how they can be improved.
This team works with VU Maintenance and Operations, Campus Planning and Construction and the Sustainability and Environmental Management Office to design, develop, implement, and track energy efficiency initiatives and campus and powerhouse improvement projects as well as develop the Campus Utility Master Plan. Projects range from design of new chilled water distribution to energy saving projects such as lighting retrofits, lighting controls and steam turbine chiller installations.
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