Reduce Your Use - Saving Energy in your Home Office
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3. For many, the home office setup has become
normal.
• PCs and laptops
• Printers
• Monitors
• Heating and cooling
• Kettles
The Workplace
4. A Room with a View
• Pick a room that works best for you as an office
• Take advantage of solar gain in the winter
• Use blinds in the summer to avoid overheating
• Take advantage of natural light
• Calendar reminder - Turn lights off when it gets
brighter
5. PC Power!
• Save energy and your battery, switch off
• Check your computer power saving options
• Sleep
• Hibernate
• Shut down
• Check your screen power saving options
• Screen brightness
• Screensavers do not save any energy
Logged off - no power sav
16 hrs on = 0.558kWh
16 hrs on = 9 cent
1 month = €2.52
1 month = 6.8 kg CO2
6. Hold the Press
• Before you print
• Optimise layout – font/margins/space/images/layout
• Black & white is more economical and saves energy
• Use double-sided printing where possible
• Turn off the printer if not being used
• Put the printer within easy reach
7. Standby to Switch off
• Switch off all equipment when not in use
• Remote control switch-off
• Master and slave extensions
• WIFI enabled sockets and lamps
• Motion sensors
• Timers
8. Lighting the way
• Switch lights off when you leave a room
• Use daylight where possible. It is free and more
pleasant than artificial light
• Notice when the day brightens up and switch off
any unnecessary lights
• Use appropriate levels of lighting e.g. half of the
lights, task lighting – desk lamp
• Dimming saves energy
• Energy efficient bulbs - LED
9. Heating control
• Only heat what you need
• Room thermostat control
• Thermostatic Radiator Control Valves
• Make sure you know how to set the
thermostatic radiator valves (TRV) correctly
• Consider a portable heater
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10. Heating
• The ideal temperature is 19-21°C
• 1°C decrease equals 5-10 % savings
• Feeling a little cold?
Pop on a woolly jumper!
• Heat the Human
• Blanket
• Electric throw
• Gloves
• Take regular breaks - get the circulation going
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7oC 12oC 16oC 20oC 24oC 28oC
11. • Avoid overfilling - Overfilling the kettle wastes
enough energy in a week to light our home for a
day
• Be attentive - Try not to leave the room directly
after putting the kettle on. It is easy to forget
about it and then it will have to be re-boiled
• Tackle limescale - Limescale reduces the
efficiency of the kettles element
• Make a pot - If you like to drink more than one
cup, make a pot and use a Tea Cosy, flask of
coffee
Have a Cuppa
Welcome
The workplace has changed over the last few years – Before we were maybe used to being in a larger office with more people.
Now many of us we find ourselves working at home at last for some of the time.
Often the equipment is still the same – we use …. And we like to have a cup of tea so we boil the kettle.
So there are lots of opportunities for energy saving.
When I was looking for a room to base my home office in …
Power saving options is covered in this weeks Monday message.
Previous Monday message on printing
This week’s Friday message – Weekend Wisdom is al about these
Previous webinar on portable electric heaters
Previous webinar on TRVs
Tool to help calculate cost of running a heater or other appliances