Here are some fun facts and statistics about CERN and the Technical Infrastructure team:
CERN uses 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity annually. That’s enough power to fuel 300,000 homes for a year in the United Kingdom. But the energy needed changes from month to month, as the seasons shift and the experimental requirements are adjusted.
At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December, CERN uses about 200 megawatts of power, which is about a third of the amount of energy used to feed the nearby city of Geneva in Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs during this period of the year, using the power to accelerate protons to nearly the speed of light. CERN's power consumption falls below 80 megawatts during the winter months.
The TI team treat an average of 45,000 phone calls a year - that's an average of over 120 phone calls per day!
Check out the latest Statistics of Alarms treated by the team!
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Alarm statistics for the last month
Alarm statistics for the last year
Some interesting figures from 2023 ↓
Number of weekly Work Orders created by TI (year 2023):
Number of Major events (year 2023):
Some older figures ↓
Number of phone calls per week (2019 figures):
Total number of calls in 2019: incoming= 30,245; outgoing = 14,113 (average of 121 calls/day)
Number of alarms received by TI per week (2019 figures):
Total alarms in 2019: 867,500 (or 2,376 per day)
Number of Work Orders created by TI (yearly, since 2013):
Number of major events handled by TI (yearly, since 2013):
