Reduce your office energy use by adopting these strategies.
Calculate energy baseline usage.
Establish an energy usage baseline
from 12 months worth of utility bills. Determine milestone energy reduction
goals with the overarching goal of reducing at least 10% of your energy usage.
Conduct a lighting audit.
Conduct a lighting audit and implement at least one of the recommendations.
Install energy efficient vending
machines.
Installing a vending machine miser
will also reduce energy consumption.
Control HVAC and energy costs.
Eliminate the use of personal fans
and space heats, and use window blinds to increase and decrease heat.
Have an ENERGY STAR
purchasing policy.
Include a green purchasing policy
in the office sustainability plan to accommodate replacing office equipment or
appliances with those that have an ENERGY STAR rating.
Modify computer power management
settings.
Change the settings on all office computers
to go into sleep mode after 15 minutes of non-use and discontinue the use of
screen savers.
Power down computers at the end of
the work day.
Implement a “Computer shut-off”
education campaign, and use power strips or unplug laptops at end of
every day.
Use copier/printer machine’s
power-saving mode.
Reduce copier/printer power consumption by using stand by mode after 15 minutes of non-use and completely turn off at the end of the day.
Purchase emissions offsets.
Purchase CO2 offsets or renewable
energy credits for 25%-50% or 50%-100% of office electricity usage.
