Since last year, many different initiatives have been taking place at the FAU Davie campus in order to make it a more energy-efficient environment. This year's electrical consumption for the campus shows that savings are moving towards the desired objectives.

Excluding the Greenhouse and the new Student Union, the university spent $530,000 last year (2007-08) on the electrical bill at the Davie campus. The projected spending this year will be less than $475,000. This constitutes projected savings of $55,000, which are very impressive since the price of Kwh has continued to increase periodically since last year.

Some of the initiatives put in place to reduce consumption include:

• The addition of lighting motion control systems in a significant number of offices and common areas.
• The manual operation of the campus’ chiller plant during the winter months (December to March).
• The automatic shut-down of PCs (and other electrical equipment, such as projectors) in the computer labs during evenings and weekends.
• The shut-down of classroom lights by the custodial staff in the evenings.