RESNET versus Eco Institution

What do Eco Consultants earn?

Fast Energy Facts

• 30% of energy in buildings used inefficiently or unnecessarily
  
  

• The average household spends nearly $2,826 NZD a year on energy bills-nearly half on heating and cooling. A programmable thermostat, set and used properly, can save about $254 NZD each year.

• Average Annual household total energy emissions: 32,332 kilograms CO2 / yr or the equivalent of 834 liters of gas

• According to the National Association of Home Builders (http://www.nahb.com/default.aspx), the average home size in the United States was 710 square meters in 2004, up from 710 square meters in 1970.

• By replacing your home’s five most frequently used light fixtures in your home to ENERGY STAR qualified ones you can save about $92 NZD each year in energy costs.

• 1 ENERGY STAR qualified light [bulb or fixture] prevents more than 565 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions over its lifetime, the equivalent of keeping nearly 283 kilograms of coal from being burned.

• If every American home replaced their 5 most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, we would save close to $11 billion each year in energy costs, and together we’d prevent the greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from nearly 10 million cars.