My electricity consumption continues to go down!
- My Energy Tracker
The earlier decline in energy consumption is largely due to general conservation measures, switching off lights and not using standby. The red realistically shows no change and fits in with the trend from last year, our extra effort in energy saving having started in April 2008.
With what appeared to be a limited impact on our net energy consumption by our wind turbines I approached FutureEnergy who very kindly called in and made some changes to settings. The mains electricity here is 250 and more volts, far from the European target of 230! Their visit was in late June and we appear to be showing an immediate 20% electricity saving from our Turbines and its during the summer when there is far less wind!
Ongoing changes are replacing failed light bulbs with LED lights (not CFLs). My bathroom will have 9 LEDs with a total consumption of about 11 Watts!
Overall a target of more than 10% by 2010, having had a 20% reduction in 2009 and similar in 2008.
See: Guardian article on Politicians plans to reduce consumption. You would think they would be leading, it all seems to be political hot air!
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