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It's time to make all homes and businesses more energy efficient

Posted by petespeller — 25 January 2012 at 12:21pm - Comments
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The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Personal energy use

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While the government needs to act to transform our energy and transport systems for a
low carbon future we can all do our bit to reduce our energy demand. Changes
big and small in the way we use electricity, power our vehicles and
heat our homes and businesses cumulatively have a significant impact.

Reducing our energy demand is something that we should be excited about, not scared of. It can save us money (the government estimates that increased efficiency in heating, electricity and transport could save us £12bn in reduced bills), as well as protect our planet.

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Energy efficiency and renewables: references and further sources

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References, notes and sources of further information for our pages on renewables, energy efficiency and combined heat and power.

 

 

Renewables (general)

EU League Table on share of renewables
When heat and transport energy is included, the UK ranks near the bottom for renewables development. Only Belgium, Cyprus and Malta are worse.

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Energy efficiency

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The way we use energy is shockingly wasteful. Every year, we throw away more than eight times the amount of energy supplied by all of the UK's nuclear power stations combined.

Through our inefficient use of energy (gas guzzling vehicles, badly insulated buildings, poorly designed appliances etc) we needlessly throw away almost a third of the energy we use (source).

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