ENERGY CONSERVATION IN AN INSTITUTIONAL CAMPUS: A CASE STUDY

An educational complex consumes electricity for the purposes of lighting, air conditioning and computer loads. To practice energy conservation in such a building enclosure warrants, switch off policies, which has limited results. A probable energy saving and demand reduction opportunity in lighting load in a typical institution campus was found out. An experiment was conducted in a residential educational complex. The interventions considered were fluorescent lamp with magnetic ballast, with electronic ballast and with a power factor improvement capacitor, in addition to the magnetic ballast. Experiments have shown that, fluorescent lamps emit almost same quantity of luminous flux (lumens) with all of these configurations. The salient results of the study reveal that energy demand can be reduced by about 40%, with a very short payback period for the said interventions