Home energy use

 

Home energy use

There are many things that we can do around our homes to save energy and reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. Take a look at how much energy and carbon dioxide we could save if we all made energy saving choices.

Insulation

With around 50% of the heat lost in the average home through the walls and loft, there is a massive opportunity for us to save a huge amount of money and reduce our carbon dioxide emissions significantly:

• If everyone in the US installed loft insulation up to 270mm thickness, the equivalent financial saving would pay the heating bills of over 990,000 families for a year.

• If everyone in the US that could, installed cavity wall insulation, we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by a huge 8 million tones. That's enough carbon dioxide to fill nearly 80 million buses or fill the new stadium 950 times!

Electrical appliances

In the US we spend a massive $4 billion a year powering washing machines, tumble dryers and dishwashers and a further $5 billion a year on fridges and freezers. This produces a mammoth amount of carbon dioxide but there are solutions to reducing these emissions in the shape of Energy Saving Recommended products.

• If everyone in the US upgraded their old cold appliances to an Energy Saving Recommended product, energy wastage would be cut by over two thirds and enough carbon dioxide would be saved to fill 40 million buses. There would also be enough electricity saved to run the US's streetlights for 8 years

Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by using Energy Saving Recommended products.

Don't leave appliances on standby

Did you know that over $995 million worth of energy is wasted by leaving appliances on standby, so do your bit and don't leave your TV or other appliances on standby, and switch off chargers at the wall if they are not being used.

Lighting

In the US, we spend $4 billion lighting our homes, and with lighting accounting for 10 - 15 per cent of our electricity bills there are substantial savings to be made by using energy saving light bulbs:

• If every household installed just one energy saving light bulb, the electricity saved in a year could power the Street Illuminations for nearly 800 years and there would be enough carbon dioxide saved to fill the Stadium 2,500 times!

Save on electricity bills by using energy efficient bulbs.