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Earth Hour 2010

Pulse Energy helps to monitor the savings for Earth Hour

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Pulse Energy is back on board with WWF’s Earth Hour 2010 to encourage organizations to take part in Earth Hour and to make a commitment to action on climate change through ongoing energy conservation.

Pulse energy management software has been primarily designed for use in commercial, institutional and industrial settings, but for Earth Hour 2010 we decided to have a bit of fun and are collecting data for our corporate office, a number of homes around the Greater Vancouver area, as well as buildings at the SFU and UBC campus locations.
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Sadhu and Manda’s house Earth Hour Savings:
Sadhu Johnston, City of Vancouver Deputy City Manager: “Manda has a business teaching people how to green their homes. Yet, she says Sadhu is the energy efficiency stickler. We live in a rented place with old appliances. We keep looking around wondering: can we do without the fridge? The competitive spirit has hit. For Earth Hour Sadhu and Manda unplugged their entire home.
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9:30pm for results
David and Nancy’s House Earth Hour Savings:
David Helliwell, CEO Pulse Energy: Nancy was one of the first people in Canada to receive her LEED certification, and I have long been an energy efficiency nut. In 2004 we did a green reno of our 27th floor condo, using Canadian Maple hardwood, low-energy lighting, and more efficient blinds. Electric heating is not required unless the outside temperature gets close to freezing
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Graham and Samantha’s House Earth Hour Savings:
Graham Cunliffe, Pulse Energy Systems Engineer: We just moved into this open plan loft and have started creating a baseline of energy usage. The plan to install CFLs, ocupancy sensors, and programmable thermostats once there is enough business as usual data so that we can see exactly how much energy is saved due to these sustainable measures.
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Mike and Amy’s House Earth Hour Savings:
Mike and Amy have installed CFL lights, occupancy detectors and programmable thermostat controllers to help reduce energy usage. They have also set up different heating programs for the week days and weekends.
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9:30pm for results
Pulse Energy Office Earth Hour Savings:
Pulse Energy occupies 2 floors of the Arts and Crafts Building at 576 Seymour Street. Originally constructed in 1910, the building has been well maintained and upgraded. Shortly after occupying the office, Pulse energy management software was installed to monitor the energy consumption on both floors, ecobee thermostats were wired to manage heating and a number of energy and waste reduction strategies were implemented. For Earth Hour, systems engineers at Pulse Energy turned off all non-essential loads.
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9:30pm for results
SFU – Academic Quadrangle Earth Hour Savings:
For Earth Hour, SFU sent out a Campus wide notification for staff to shut off lights and equipment during the one hour event. Facilities Management also scheduled equipment for shutdown where ever possible.
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9:30pm for results
SFU – Gymnasium Earth Hour Savings:
For Earth Hour, SFU sent out a Campus wide notification for staff to shut off lights and equipment during the one hour event. Facilities Management also scheduled equipment for shutdown where ever possible.
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9:30pm for results
UBC C.K. Choi Earth Hour Savings:
Orion Henderson, Director Operational Sustainability: “UBC encouraged all students, staff and faculty to power down in support of Earth Hour 2010. UBC sent out broadcast emails to the campus community requesting the campus community to turn off and unplug all non-essential lights and equipment before leaving campus on Friday, March 26th and throughout the weekend. The Campus Sustainability Office (CSO) also sent direct emails to IT, facilities managers, custodial staff and UBC’s 150 staff sustainability coordinators, asking them to promote the event and encourage their peers to commit to energy conservation actions.”
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9:30pm for results
UBC – University Service Building Earth Hour Savings:
Orion Henderson, Director Operational Sustainability: “UBC encouraged all students, staff and faculty to power down in support of Earth Hour 2010. UBC sent out broadcast emails to the campus community requesting the campus community to turn off and unplug all non-essential lights and equipment before leaving campus on Friday, March 26th and throughout the weekend. The Campus Sustainability Office (CSO) also sent direct emails to IT, facilities managers, custodial staff and UBC’s 150 staff sustainability coordinators, asking them to promote the event and encourage their peers to commit to energy conservation actions.”
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9:30pm for results
GM Place Earth Hour Savings:
Al Hutchings, Director Engineering GM Place: General Motors Place has taken advantage of B.C. Hydro Power Smart initiatives and currently uses lighting fixtures and Variable Frequency Drive units that help to limit our electrical power consumption. We are currently upgrading to LED Lighting technology where possible in the building. For Earth Hour we will be turning off all non-essential Lighting and HVAC loads. We will also be encouraging Canuck Sports and Entertainment Staff to participate at home.
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9:30pm for results
Village of Hartley Bay Earth Hour Savings:
The Village of Hartley Bay is arguably Canada’s greenest first nations community. For Earth Hour they shut off the diesel power supply to the entire community for the third Earth Hour in a row.
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9:30pm for results