Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency: Helping you to help the Environment - and Save Money!

The wasteful use of energy, especially when it has come from burning fossil fuels, is causing serious damage to the global environment. The following information offers some basic Energy Advice on ways in which you can reduce your impact on the environment and save money at the same time.

Before starting it is helpful to consider the right order to do things.

So its best to try and save energy by:

The first step costs nothing and can immediately start saving you money. Some of them may involve changes to your lifestyle, such as walking or taking the bus rather than driving off in your car. Others are simple matters of habit like switching lights off when they are not in use and checking that the room thermostat on your heating system is set correctly. This is sometimes known as energy conservation.

Most of the next steps in the stage, using energy more efficiently, involve a modest outlay of just a few pounds, but will pay for themselves within a year. Other measures may require significant investment or involve professional installation. However almost all energy efficiency measures will eventually pay for themselves in reduced fuel bills.

Once you are using energy more efficiently without waste, you can really begin to think about where that energy is coming from. Clean renewable energy sources, often with the sun as the ultimate source of the energy, are all around us. Sometimes they are a little difficult to capture or more expensive than digging polluting fossil fuels out of the ground, but there are a suprising number of small scale renewable energy sources that won't cost the earth and can be installed at an average UK home.

A website can only offer useful information and guidance about energy, but cannot be a substitute for individual detailed advice. If you want to know more about saving energy and becoming more energy efficient you could contact your local Energy Efficiency Advice Centre on 0800 512012 or complete a Home Energy Survey.

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