Why, What, How?

Why energy efficiency?

Where you live is important.  Your home will have an impact on your health, happiness, disposable income, and so on. 

What is it?

Using resources conscientiously and sensibility underpins the term energy efficiency.  There are two ways to move towards a more energy efficient lifestyle:

• Your behaviour

Change to low energy lighting, turn off your stand-by’s, don’t leave appliances plugged in, put a jumper on instead of turning the heating up, turn down your thermostat …… all of these are simple behaviour suggestions which will save money and energy around the home and wont cost you a penny.

• The building

Each building has a different efficiency rating.  You need to explore where your building is losing heat so measures can be suggested and/or installed to improve its rating. 

Explore ways to make a house more energy efficient:
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/what_can_i_do_today/how_efficient_is_your_home

Complete a Home Energy Questionnaire and you’ll receive a report outlining recommendations.
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/proxy/view/full/165/homeenergycheck

How?

There’s many no cost tips and tricks

There’s lots of new and innovative gadgets on the market aimed to help you be more energy efficient

There’s various measures that can be installed (some through grant schemes)