Clarkson Smart Housing Project
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Personal / Community: Community project
Energy sub-category: Education, training
Description: Clarkson's Smart Housing Project measures water and electricity use in student apartments at a highly granular level and provides feed back and motivational messages to students to encourage conservation.
Website about this solution: https://www.clarkson.edu/smarthousing
Video about this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ToqyqRio8
Why I love this solution: In a preliminary three-year study funded by NYSERDA, students in the intervention groups (combinations of feedback and motivation), conserved over 20% electricity and hot water relative to the control groups.