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What is an Energy Audit

Continuing with our previous article Energy Saving Tips for Apartments where we explained the need for a new energy awareness, a new energy attitude and new knowledge. It is important that you do an apartment energy audit, not necessarily a perfect audit, but at least a "basic" audit. Do not allow the word "audit" to overwhelm you. It is simply the process of discovering as exactly as you can, where your apartment is using energy.

How to Lower Your Electricity Bill

In practice there are not many things you can do to reduce the amount of energy you consume without seriously changing the quality of your lifestyle. But the following list of simple steps will save between 15% and 35% of the electricity bill for an average family. Some of us are prepared to significantly alter our lifestyle to save energy, but I think this is missing the point.

Saving Energy in Our Apartment

It's been over 6 months since I got really serious about saving electricity in our apartment. I thought it might be useful to write up our "real" experiences, particularly for people like us who live in an apartment. The process of energy saving began with a change in my home energy awareness. I was writing on the use of electricity in my home office. As I did so I could not help noticing how poor my whole attitude to energy saving actually was.