Our First Breakthrough

This morning was spent taking care of a couple of things. First, we headed up to the classroom with the iPad cart to check on how much energy it had been consuming. This was just an experiment of ours, and it turns out that the laptop cart consumed a little more than one kWh over the span of a day.Then, we took the data that we collected overnight using the Metasys software and created graphs of each sub-section of the high school. While we kept track of 6 different data points, the one that we were most concerned with was kWh. From graphs that we made in the past, we knew that there was a spike in energy consumption that started around the night time. Equipped with this knowledge, we decided to find the difference in kWh in each of the 6 sub-sections from 8 PM to 7 AM in order to determine how much money each sub-section was spending every night. This is what we found.

We determined how much money was spend in each sub-section by utilizing the fact that 1kWh = $0.16. The graph clearly shows that the gym is the biggest contributor to the mysterious energy consumption at night. Because this may just be an anomaly, we decided to wait and see at least a week's worth of data before rushing to any conclusions. Among the other big contributors include the lighting in the school as well as the Emergency-Security. 
After we came back from lunch, we decided to look into electricity in the US. We found that since the US uses 110V instead of 220V, in order to achieve the same amount of power, the US would have to have two times the current compared to other countries with 220V. Because of this, we found that in countries with 110V would have to use 2 times the amount of aluminum to construct a wire of the same diameter. This comes to show that we are wasting resources over something that can be easily fixed.