Facilities, Infrastructure and Risk Management (FIRM)

Facilities Management & Campus Services

TO:  Shutdown Group, Facility Coordinators

FROM:  Service Response Center

SUBJECT: Energy Reduction Events 7/24 & 7/25

An emergency alert and mandatory curtailment notice has been issued for Thursday, July 24th and Friday, July 25th due to the high heat index, high temperatures, and projected spike in the electrical grid demand.   As such, we will be conducting campus-wide energy reduction actions on both Thursday, July 24th and Friday, July 25th from 2pm to 8pm, in an effort to reduce energy demand across the grid.

To do our part in reducing the load on the electrical grid, you can expect:

· Occupied offices, classrooms and other areas will be slightly warmer than usual from 2pm to 8pm 

· Occupied housing buildings are exempt from these setbacks

· Unoccupied offices, classrooms and other areas will have lighting and HVAC turned off from 2pm to 8pm.

If there are any sensitive areas with high level functions occurring during this time, please contact fixit@andrew.cmu.edu so that we can ensure those spaces are not affected.  We will be referring to 25 live for scheduling. 

Thanks for your cooperation in this matter.  As a reminder, this is expected to occur Thursday and Friday this week.