TOP ENERGY SAVING TIPS FROM THE CARBON TRUST

Switch lights off in empty rooms.

• You could cut your lighting costs by as much as 15%, just by making sure you turn lights off in rooms and corridors that aren’t being used.

Don’t turn up the heating unless you really need to

• Unless it’s just too cold for comfort, try to keep your thermostat at 19°C. Your heating costs will go up by 8% each time you increase the temperature by just one degree.

Maintain your equipment properly

• If you don’t regularly check your heating equipment, you could be adding as much as 10% to your heating bill without knowing it.

Vending machines v kettles

• It is cheaper to provide a kettle for staff who work outside normal business hours than to continue to run a drinks vending machine during these times.

Standby

• A single computer and monitor left on 24 hours a day will cost over £50 a year. Switching them off out of hours and enabling standby features could reduce this to £15 a year each and prolong the lifespan of equipment.

Lighten up

• Replacing high wattage filament lamps or tungsten halogen lamps with compact fluorescent lamps or metal halide lamps will give energy savings of 65-75%

Find and fix compressed air leaks

• Compressed air leaking through a single 3mm hole could cost you nearly £700 per year in energy costs