Get A Free Home Energy Report: Save Two Tonnes of C02 (and £250!)
It’s a doddle, takes a couple of minutes, is totally free and then you get a clever report on how you can save energy, money and the environment by making modest changes in your humble abode.
The ‘Online Home Energy Check’ is run by The Energy Saving Trust, a government body set up to ‘encourage energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energy sources into the economic fabric of our society (blah blah blah) … promote better insulation and heating efficiency for buildings and homes… champion small-scale renewable energy, such as solar and wind power.’
The point is that to generate the energy we use to keep our homes in business, we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) which produce ‘greenhouse’ gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) which are changing our climate and damaging the environment.
Reducing the amount of energy we use at home can reduce by several tonnes the amount of of C02 created – and can save us up to £250 each year on energy bills (it says here).
All you do is fill in a tick-box form online to indicate the vital statistics of your des res and then they do a quick calculation before sending you a personalised report listing the ways you can reduce your energy consumption.
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11 Sep 2006
this is a very cool little piece of work because all you have to do is answer a few questions and then it gives you a string of energy-saving suggestions for your own home. For example, we are about to decorate a bedroom which has two external walls and unsurprisingly is generally v cold in winter. The report suggested we go for something called internal wall insulation which I had never heard of. So I will check it out and if we can afford it then it will both save energy and keep the room warmer.
24 Sep 2006
I’ve just completed the questionnaire and it’s certainly no effort. Well worth the £250…
Plaistow, GB , 27 Nov 2006
We also got a couple of free low energy light bulbs for filling it in. Only 60watt but OK where we don’t need the light to be bright.
08 Dec 2006
I completed the questionnaire and then it errored out at the stage when it should have provided results.
Egham, GB , 10 Nov 2008
Just told me what I already know, things like get double glazing, buy a more energy effecient fridge/freezer etc, but I still can’t afford to do this