Submitted by Jessica Haskell on Fri, 2021-01-22 15:59
The Electricity Devolution Project (EDP) has now completed its second ghost year, with 58 departments participating across all Schools. The project is now at the start of the third ghost year, during which all remaining University departments will participate and receive quarterly progress reports. The intention was to then go live with the scheme across the entire University in the 2021/22 financial year.
However, Covid-19, in particular during the first lockdown period when the University closed, has caused significant disruption to University life, changing the way buildings and people operate. This has created difficulties in both setting baselines for new EDP participants (those not involved up to now) and also comparing existing EDP participant performance against pre-Covid consumption.
Therefore, the full launch of the EDP (when budgets are allocated to departments) will be postponed until at least the 2022/23 financial year due to the uncertainty created by Covid-19. All EDP departmental baselines have been removed, and the Sustainability Team will be undertaking a full review of the baselining process once ‘new normal’ activities have resumed within the University.
In the meantime, the Sustainability Team will continue to provide consumption reports to all departments with annual consumption for previous years as a reference, but they will not compare against a baseline. We will begin to compile the quarterly reports following half year (Q2) at the end of January, and departments can therefore expect to receive these during March.
For further information, please contact the Sustainability Team at sustainability@admin.cam.ac.uk.
Written by Greg Nolan and Bekki Ward