BBC News - 28/02/08
Energy Saving Day, a 24-hour initiative aiming to reduce the UK's electricity use, begins on Wednesday evening.
A coalition of environmental groups, religious leaders and energy companies is asking people to curb climate change by turning off devices not in use.
The National Grid will monitor how much difference it makes to consumption, while power companies will identify customers wanting home insulation.
The BBC News website will be displaying results in close to real time.
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Day to 'save energy and climate'
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Day to 'save energy and climate'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7266978.stm
- biffvernon
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Well according to the meter on the BBC news page, consumption today is currently running higher than normal!
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Pay attention. We've had a thread about this:clv101 wrote:News to me.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... php?t=6396started 5th Feb, on which I posted a link to the E-Day website: http://www.e-day.org.uk/
It's rather fun - there's the nation's electricity meter (the 'units' are Mega Watt hours). Unfortunately, when I checked a few moments ago, we were using 1.7% more power than 'usual'.
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Bit of a flop then! I checked out the national grid website, the electriticity demand in the last 8 days varies at peak on each weekday between 52 and 57 GW, so its possible for UK to cut back if it really wants to.
It would be interesting to see the data for the long term trends in electricity usage, I think I remember seeing the graph in a thread somewhere. Are we continually going up, static or decreasing our electricity usage?
It would be interesting to see the data for the long term trends in electricity usage, I think I remember seeing the graph in a thread somewhere. Are we continually going up, static or decreasing our electricity usage?
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No impact from Energy Saving Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7270218.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7270218.stm
Surprise, surprise.BBC News - 28/02/08
The UK's first Energy Saving Day has ended with no noticeable reduction in the country's electricity usage.
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Quite a thoughtful article about the day from Matt Prescott, the guy behind it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7334774.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7334774.stm