Energy Saving: The Facts

In the UK, on average, organisations waste unnecessarily up to 30% of the energy they buy, this costs business millions of pounds in lost revenue every year.*

• Tea and coffee: Only boil as much as you need. If everyone boiled only the water they needed to make a cup of tea instead of filling the kettle every time, we could save enough electricity in a year to run nearly half of the street lighting in the country.  
• Recycle: For every tonne of paper we re-use, seventeen trees will be spared. Save paper and save trees, simple. 
• Light bulbs: If you replaced all light bulbs with energy efficiency bulbs, they will last up to 12 times longer and use around a quarter of the electricity! 
• Why light empty spaces? By installing occupancy sensors you can reduce lighting costs by 30%  
• Turn off your screen: PC screens do not use less energy when in ‘screen-saver’ mode. PC screens often represent at least a third of the electricity consumption in a modern office. Most of the wasted energy is given off as heat which your air conditioning unit will have to get rid of in the summer…using more energy!
• Switch to using a laptop: They use 90% less energy 
• Ink-jet printers: Use 90% less energy
• White goods: Buying a new energy efficient fridge could save you up to £45 a year and it will also have a lesser carbon dioxide output

*Statistics taken from The Carbon Trust