Campus Energy

Let’s focus our energy on consuming less of it

The EPFL Direction has set up an operational management committee tasked with developing both preliminary recommendations on how to reduce our School’s energy use and action plans that would enable us to continue carrying out our core activities even if there is a major shortage.

Measures

Icone représentant les mesures pour réduire la consommation d'énergie sur le campus

Measures put in place by EPFL to reduce its electricity consumption.

Recom­men­dations

Icone représentant les recommandations pour réduire la consommation d'énergie sur le campus

Useful tips on how to reduce our everyday energy use.

Not allowed

Icone représentant les éléments non-autorisés afin de réduire la consommation d'énergie sur le campus

List of prohibited items and appliances to reduce energy impact on campus.

Documentation

Animation en vue isométrique et en pixel-art d'un campus thématique de l'EPFL. On y reconnaît, entre autres, des salles de cours, des salles d'exercices, des locaux techniques, des lieux réservés à la recherche, des transports publics, le Rolex Learning Center, le Vortex, le SwissTech Convention Center et des foodtrucks © Laurent Bazart

Continuity plans

Range of scenarios involving EPFL and the general public in the event the energy-savings measures are activated.

Capture d'écran du monitoring de consommation électrique hebdomadaire de l'EPFL

Monitoring EPFL’s energy use

View EPFL’s average monthly and weekly energy consumption

Vue de la nouvelle centrale de chauffe de l'EPFL © Murielle Gerber / EPFL, 2022

Vue de la nouvelle centrale de chauffe de l’EPFL © Murielle Gerber / EPFL, 2022

EPFL takes another step towards carbon neutrality

Read the news

On 8 September 2022, EPFL inaugurated its new heating plant, which has the capacity to heat and cool the Lausanne campus solely by drawing water from Lake Geneva and recovering excess heat from a connected data center.

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