c a p t i o nMonitors that will provide students with real-time information about energy consumed have been installed in Yale’s Pierson and Silliman residential colleges, the Yale Office of Sustainability has announced.Accompanied by an educational campaign about residential energy consumption at Yale and nationwide, the monitors aim to provide students with direct and immediate awareness of the effects of their consumption decisions. Designed by Lucid Design Group, the system displays real-time data on energy used for electricity, heating, and cooling. Large, interactive touch-screen monitors that have been installed near the Pierson and Silliman dining halls allow viewers to see energy consumption patterns over time, compare between colleges, and display in unit equivalencies such as gallons of gasoline, hours of use for hairdryers, microwaves and laptops as well as the monetary. The information is also available online through a live website at: www.yale.edu/energydashboard.
