Pilot Building Profiles

CENTRAL CHALLENGE: How can Yale motivate and help finance and operational managers to implement energy efficiency projects in their buildings?

Given the diversity of buildings at Yale, what are the considerations that need to be taken into account to drive energy action in each building’s context? For example:

• Who would need to be involved?
• What are the major challenges and opportunities?
• What would motivate action?
• How can the carbon charge be integrated with the specific department’s priorities?
• What type of data would be needed to take the most targeted action?

Each building at Yale has a unique energy profile due to its age, primary use and investment history. Furthermore, Yale has a complex institutional structure with multiple layers of actors that makes it challenging to implement a carbon charge. This section looks at the different responses of buildings to the carbon charge and the challenges and opportunities they faced in taking energy actions. The table below provides a detailed list of the buildings included in the pilot.