UT Knoxville Meets Energy Goals
To: Knoxville-area UT Students, Faculty and Staff
From: Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek
Date: November 23, 2009
Over the past 15 months, the UT Knoxville community has worked very diligently to find ways to reduce energy use and costs across campus. Thanks to your actions and ideas to conserve energy, UT's Switch Your Thinking campaign has saved the campus more than $1 million in energy costs alone.
This savings is a direct result of all of our students, faculty and staff doing their part to help eliminate wasted energy. We asked you to turn off lights when you left a room, shut down computers at the end of the day and unplug power strips when they weren't in use. You continue to do all of that and more.
Our electricity usage per square foot on campus is down nearly 10 percent. This reduction in consumption affects our energy costs and has a positive impact on our environment. These are the core goals of the Switch Your Thinking campaign.
UT Knoxville will continue to look for ways to reduce energy consumption and cut energy costs. In this effort, thermostats in most campus buildings have been set to a winter target temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
I thank our campus community for making the effort to save costs and energy, and I encourage you to continue to submit your ideas for additional savings.
Posted November 23, 2009
