10% Energy Challenge
April 30, 2008 by Eugene
Filed under Climate Change, Energy and Transportation, Singapore
The National Environment Agency (NEA) is organising the 10% Energy Challenge to encourage households to reduce their electricity usage. In this national campaign, households who reduce their energy consumption by 10% between May and August will stand to win lucky draw prizes. The prizes include a hybrid car, energy efficient refrigerators and air-conditioners, LCD televisions and lighting products. NEA will also send out Energy Efficiency information kits to households, which contains useful tips on saving electricity.
This 10% Energy Challenge will tackle increasing energy consumption by households and help them save money. Households consumed 6,820 GWh of electricity in 2007, which is about 18% out of the total electricity generated (37,420 GWh in 2007) in Singapore. Energy consumption by households have also increased by 78% from 1995 to 2007. This is a result of higher standards of living with increased usage of electrical appliances in homes. NEA’s CEO, Mr Lee Yuen Hee, believes that “the choices Singaporeans make about how they use energy at home will help them manage overall household costs as well as help mitigate climate change.”
Check out more details about the 10% Energy Challenge from the Energy Efficiency website or from NEA’s news releases – NEA to households: cut your energy bills by 10% and NEA to step up efforts to promote Energy Efficiency.
Source: National Environment Agency.
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there is also a statistic that by turning your heating just 1 degree you can save about 200$ per year
You can uprgard your glass to energy efficient glazing which will more than reduce the effciency by 10%, also turning the heating down by a little bit will reduce your heating bills.
I remember a couple years ago they tried to do something like that across the world for everyone to turn off their electricity for an hour. Was meant to save on emissions, but things have gone back to normal now.
Good article, interesting to see how it turned out in the end. Would love to see another effort at the global turning off of electricity. That would be phenomenal.