If you need to leave essential equipment switched on during 聽on 13 November, please by the end of today (6 November) requesting an ‘opt out’ from the evening.
Blackout is designed to highlight the positive impact of our collective small actions on campus聽just by switching off computers, lights and devices at the end of each day.
Switching off equipment not only reduces our energy consumption and carbon emissions but cuts our annual electricity bill too.
Blackout covers offices and Common Learning Spaces but聽excludes lecture theatres and laboratories and ECS computer laboratories.
On the night, teams of staff and students will audit and switch off any聽equipment left on unnecessarily before the weekend and then measure the impact on our electricity usage.
If you fill in the form, you will be sent聽a聽poster to display on the piece of equipment that is to be left on.
If you’re worried that switching off your computer means it will take even longer to start,聽please聽check with if it normally takes longer than 4 minutes,聽as there may be something wrong with it.
You can read the Blackout FAQs .
You can follow progress on , and .
Blackout is聽part of the University鈥檚 2015 Wellbeing Week, .