Climate Change: What you can do

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Climate Change What you can do

• Andrew Ellis
• Home Energy Conservation Officer
• Home Energy Funding Officer
• Tel. [phone]
• E-mail andrew.ellis_at_harrogate.gov.uk

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What can you do?

• Steps individuals can take to reduce their impact
  on Climate Change

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How does this affect the UK?

• If everyone in the UK that could install cavity
  wall Insulation did we would save 7million
  tonnes of CO2
• If everyone Installed a gas condensing boiler
  that could we could cut emissions by 13million
  tonnes

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What can we do as individuals in our own homes?

• Action has to be a combination of reducing use
  and improving efficiency.
• Reducing use can be
• How we behave
• Making choices about using energy
• Improving efficiency in areas where we use
  energy.
• Heating
• Hot water
• Appliances
• Cooking
• lighting

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How we behave

• Switching off lights when we leave the room
• Avoiding using the standby button on the TV
• Not over-filling the kettle when we need one
  cups worth of water.
• Switching off chargers at the plug

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Making choices about using energy

• Choices about leaving lighting on outside
• Choices about timing for using different tariffs
• Choices about washing temperatures and soak
  programmes
• Choices about holiday destinations

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Choices continued

• Choice of temperature setting
• Clothing in the home
• Closing curtains
• Level of daily activity, age and metabolic rate

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Household losses
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Improving efficiency in areas where we use
energyHeating

• Heating equipment
• Age of system
• Renewable energy
• Insulation in the home, loft and cavity wall
• How thick?
• Draft proofing
• Double glazing and insulated doors

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Improving efficiency in areas where we use
energy hot water

• Temperature setting
• Showering / bathing
• Renewables
• Solar hot water
• Heat pump
• biomass

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Improving efficiency in areas where we use
energy Lighting

• Low energy light bulbs
• Motion sensors
• Light emitting diodes

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Improving efficiency in areas where we use
energy Cooking

• Induction
• Microwave
• Combination cooking

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Improving efficiency in areas where we use
energy Appliances

• Triple A rated appliances
• Lower running costs
• Higher initial cost
• Extended life

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Review

• Reduce use
• Replace and improve with energy efficient
  products

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Diagram to show the savings that can be made