“It’s much harder to get the information out,” Danielson said.
The metering has generated several results that CERP plans to examine further.
“It seems to us that there are some dorms that are inherently more efficient, and some that are inherently less efficient,” Danielson said, citing factors such as lighting in hallways as possible variables.
“I don’t think we’re going to do the metering again,” she said. “It was fairly expensive for us.”
Results showed Harvard to be relatively efficient in energy use, Danielson said.
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“We’re pretty much right on the average residential consumption in the U.S.,” she said.
—Staff writer Christine M. DeLucia can be reached at delucia@fas.harvard.edu.