|How Can We Save Energy?

|How can we save energy? |
|Saving energy means decreasing the amount of energy used while achieving a similar outcome of end use. Using |
|less energy has lots of benefits – you can save money and help the environment. Generating energy requires |
|precious natural resources, for instance coal, oil or gas. Therefore, using less energy helps us to preserve |
|these resources and make them last longer in the future. |
|Why is it important to save energy? |
|If people use less energy, there is less pressure to increase the available supply of energy, for example by |
|constructing new power plants, or by importing energy from a different country. |
|What does “life-cycle” mean? What does it have to do with energy use? |
|Nearly all everyday products have an impact in terms of energy, especially when you consider their energy |
|requirements across the whole life-cycle: production, use and end-of-life. In many cases the use phase is |
|dominating. Plastics, for example, are one of the most resource-efficient materials available. In their use |
|phase, plastics products help to save more energy than is needed to produce them: For example, when you choose |
|a bottle of water packaged in a light weight material such as plastic, remember that lighter packaging requires|
|less energy for transport. Thus, less fuel was used to power the truck that delivered those plastic bottles. |
|What can I do to save energy? |
|There are many sources on the web that give you ideas of what you can do to save energy. Here are a few ideas |
|to get you started: