Evaluation of Electrical Energy Used Within the Educational Institution System Based on the History of Consumption, Base Energy Load, and Energy Utilization Index

The history of electrical energy consumption is important information to assess its behavior. The study was an initial stage in the conduct of an electrical energy audit that determines the actual consumption associated with the facility and the potential savings associated with the consumption. The execution of the electrical energy audit can provide enormous benefits in different capacities as it can help in the reduction of energy cost in each facility brought about by the evaluation results. This study was an evaluation of electrical energy used within the system among four higher educational institutions in the Philippines with the objective of assessing its individual consumption considering the base energy load, per capita consumption, and energy utilization index. University campuses are representation of diverse buildings with varied energy consumptions and can provide excellent testbeds for electrical energy audit to comprehend the consumption based on the different profiles. The complete analysis of the consumption of electrical energy was conducted by assessing the per capita consumption and the energy utilization index provided by certain standards and code. The per capita consumption of the four HEIs in the year 2018 and 2019 are all acceptable and each person consumed energy within its ideal consumption versus that of Statistica Research Department. However, the analysis of the consumption per given area based on the Philippine Green Building Code shows that there was poor electrical energy performance. To provide benchmark for energy conservation, HEIs may have adopted the average consumption of 2018 as its base energy load in 2019 and thus, savings may have been made in electrical energy consumption among all these HEIs.