A University’s Energy Operation: Basis for Energy Management Policy

University’s energy management policy is more important as schools espouse new practices, technology and equipment that can affect energy needs. One of the programs is the Government Energy Management Program (GEMP) which aims to integrate efficiency concepts into the operation of government agencies to realize the reduction target of ten percent in electricity and fuel consumption in compliance with the presidential; directive under AO 126. From this perspective, this research looked into the energy operation in Cebu Normal University in order to come up with an energy management policy. Triangulation method with quantitative approaches was made in order to analyze the data gathered from primary as well as secondary information. The university’s consumption on electricity in the past 3 years, 2009 – 2011, shows a consistent increase in the monthly consumption of electricity from January to February and March due to various activities conducted for every last two months of the second semester. The university officials and the non teaching staff asserted that “the soaring prices of fuel and commodities are the barometer of the electricity crisis” while the teaching personnel mentioned that “energy crisis is manifested in the oil price increase”. Likewise, the students agreed and felt that “in the fast pace of modernization, the demand of energy is getting higher”. The current status of the university Energy Management Policy is belonged to Level 1 which means that the university had created small steps towards energy management. Consequently, the university’s energy saving practices and the energy management level of sophistication were influenced by the electricity consumption of stakeholders’. Thus, the university’s ability to devise energy conservation strategies and to raise its level of energy management level of sophistication can effect lesser energy consumption, thus efficient energy management system is attained.

Keywords: Energy Operation, Energy management Policy