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the day. A campaign was employed to fix this, with an attempt to raise awareness of this issue to the staff, and by employing strict policies to reduce the electrical consumption in zone D. For example, the temperature of air-conditioner is to be maintained at 24c, a fixed solution that no one in the staff has power in changing it. Additionally, policies about the utilities that cannot be used by staffs at the University such as cup heater, rice cooker or mini fridge were also implemented. Meaning they were not allowed to bring in their own utilities in their individual offices. Other than such, students and staffs were not allowed to be in the campus area after a certain time of night, depending on the day, whether it was a weeknight or weekend, but mostly it was around 10pm-midnight. Implementing this campaign allowed the university to see results in zone D, after a certain time has passed, which showed that people have initiative to change, if you show them the way, (fig2) shows a sample of energy consumption of zone D:

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Electrical consumption for a period in late 2011 was averaging around 5000-6250 kwH – then it decreased to around 5000-5500 kwH by the end of 2012.

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