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Energy Efficiency & Conservation Guide

Energy efficiency means using less energy to perform the same task by eliminating waste. It brings benefits like reducing emissions and costs. Improving energy efficiency through technologies and designs is the cheapest way to reduce fossil fuel use. There are opportunities for efficiency gains in buildings, transportation, industry, and energy generation. Building designers are optimizing efficiency and incorporating renewables to create zero-energy buildings, while existing buildings can implement efficiency upgrades. Energy conservation reduces the need for energy services through less consumption or more efficient use, lowering environmental impacts and costs. It is at the top of sustainable energy approaches.

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Energy Efficiency & Conservation Guide

Energy efficiency means using less energy to perform the same task by eliminating waste. It brings benefits like reducing emissions and costs. Improving energy efficiency through technologies and designs is the cheapest way to reduce fossil fuel use. There are opportunities for efficiency gains in buildings, transportation, industry, and energy generation. Building designers are optimizing efficiency and incorporating renewables to create zero-energy buildings, while existing buildings can implement efficiency upgrades. Energy conservation reduces the need for energy services through less consumption or more efficient use, lowering environmental impacts and costs. It is at the top of sustainable energy approaches.

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ASSIGNMENT
Energy Efficiency
 Energy efficiency simply means using less energy
to perform the same task – that is, eliminating
energy waste. Energy efficiency brings a variety of
benefits: reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
reducing demand for energy imports, and lowering
our costs on a household and economy-wide level.
While renewable energy technologies also help
accomplish these objectives, improving energy
efficiency is the cheapest – and often the most
immediate – way to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
There are enormous opportunities for efficiency
improvements in every sector of the economy,
whether it is buildings, transportation, industry, or
energy generation.
Buildings
 Buildingdesigners are looking to optimize building
efficiency and then incorporate renewable energy
technologies, leading to the creation of zero-
energy buildings. Changes in existing buildings
can also be made to reduce energy usage and
costs. These may include small steps, such as
choosing LED light bulbs and energy efficient
appliances, or larger efforts such as upgrading
insulation and weatherization
 Freight
 Vehicles
 Human Behavior
 Community Design
 Energy Generation and Distribution
Energy conservation
 Energy conservation is the effort made to reduce
the consumption of energy by using less of an
energy service. This can be achieved either
by using energy more efficiently (using less energy
for a constant service) or by reducing the amount
of service used (for example, by driving less).
Energy conservation is a part of the concept of Eco-
sufficiency. Energy conservation reduces the need
for energy services and can result in
increased environmental quality, national
security, personal financial security and higher
savings. It is at the top of the sustainable energy
hierarchy. It also lowers energy costs by preventing
future resource depletion.
 Energy can only be transformed from one form to
other, such as heat energy to motive power in
cars, or kinetic energy of water flow to electricity
in hydroelectric power plants. However machines
are required to transform energy from one form
to other. The wear and friction of the components
of these machine while running cause losses of
very high amounts of energy and very high
related costs. It is possible to minimize these
losses by adopting green engineering practices to
improve life cycle of the components.
 Energy conservation day is celebrated on
December 14 every year since 1991.
 Energycan be conserved by reducing wastage
and losses, improving efficiency through
technological upgrades and improved operation
and maintenance. On a global level energy use
can also be reduced by the stabilization
of population growth.

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