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THE CYCLE – REDUCE
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Housing
Investment
Daily life
Improving the insulation of an existing gas
or oil-heated dwelling
Building a new gas or oil-heated dwelling
Purchasing a new low-temperature
or condensing boiler
Fitting a solar-powered boiler
Buying an energy class A+ household
electrics appliance
Regularly maintaining gas
or oil-fuel boilers
Lowering the inside
temperature by 2°C
in winter
Replacing conventional light bulbs
with low-energy bulbs
Optimizing use of washing machine
1. Relatively low gain as most electricity in France is nuclear-powered.
Some examples of the effect of individual behaviour
on greenhouse gas emissions in France
The area of the squares is proportionate to the annual reduction in emissions in million tonnes of CO
2
equivalent.
Possible gain if all households use the cold-wash programme, thus saving 40%
energy, at night, off-peak electricity production emitting less carbon.
Possible gain if rehabilitation (at a rate of 3% per annum) of France's
20.2 million gas or oil-heated dwellings improves insulation sufficiently
to achieve annual energy consumption of 50 kWh per sq m, compared
with 200 at present.
Possible gain if the 130 000 new dwellings built on average every year, primarily
heated using gas or oil, target annual energy consumption of 50 kWh per sq m,
compared with 130 at present.
Possible gain if all the 450 000 individual boilers replaced every year are
high-performance boilers, compared with only 95 500 at present.
Possible gain if the goal of energy framework legislation to install 200
000 solar-powered boilers a year by 2010 is brought forward to 2005
and continued till 2020.
Possible gain if all household electrical appliances replaced annually
(9% of total) meet energy class A+ requirements, thus cutting energy
consumption by 20%
1
.
Possible gain if gas or oil-fuel boilers are regularly
maintained, improving overall efficiency by 5%, in
the 15 million dwellings concerned.
Possible gain if the inside
temperature of all dwellings is
reduced by 2°C, corresponding
to a 14% reduction in energy
consumption.
Possible gain if all lighting is provided by low-energy
light bulbs, which consume five times less energy
than conventional bulbs.