Below are a few simple examples of how businesses
can save through better management of their
energy usage in the work place.
Replace your 100 incandescent light bulbs with Compact
Fluorescent Lamps
Payback in 4 months and then save 70% on your lighting
costs from then on.
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First time costs
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$700
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$100
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Annual replacement costs
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$154 (22% replaced each yr)
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$200 (all replaced twice a yr)
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Annual Energy cost
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$768
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$2847
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Total Annual Cost
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$922
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$3047
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Savings |
$2125
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Much of the heat lost from the heating of water is
through poorly insulated water pipes and tanks.
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Hot water cylinder wrap*
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$70-$120
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$22-$80
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1-5yrs
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Hot water pipe wrap*
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$5-$20
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$16
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4-8 months
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A regular PC takes around 120W to run (laptops and
flat screen monitors are more efficient).
This is around 2.88kWh used in a 24 hour day.
If you had 20 PCs running over a
24hr period you would use 57kWh.
Using an energy cost of 14 cents per kWh we have
worked out a saving that can be easily made by simply
turning off your PC’s when they are not being used.
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Weekend period (48hrs)
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$15.96
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52 weekend periods
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$829.92
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Optimising compressed air systems can provide energy-efficiency
improvements of 20-50%
A 500 kPa compressed air system operating at 1500
hrs per year has a single hole of between 1-3mm in size.
Repairing this leak will save around $272 per year and
a tonne of CO2.
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