The BuilderScrap.com team love this type of post. They keep us grounded on public attitudes to energy conservation and environmental issues

The survey asked respondents to indicate how many light bulbs, including energy saving light bulbs, they had in their home. The mean average for the total number of light bulbs per home was estimated to be 20 per home which is consistent with research carried out by the Energy Saving Trust in February 2008 (which indicated a mean number of 19 light bulbs per home).

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8 Light bulbs, cars and most electrical appliances (e.g. refrigerators, stoves, washing machines) carry the EU Energy Label. The energy efficiency of the product is rated in energy levels ranging from A to G on the outside label. ‘A’ stands for the most energy efficient and ‘G’ for the least energy efficient.

The mean number of energy saving light bulbs per home was just over half this number (12) indicating that in an average home around 60% of the light bulbs were energy saving light bulbs. Comparisons with research carried out by the Energy Saving Trust in February 2008 and the 2007 Defra survey data indicate that the average proportion of energy saving light bulbs in people’s homes is increasing. In 2007 the equivalent figure was reported as 4 energy saving light bulbs per home, increasing to a reported 7 per home in February 2008 (and 39% of all bulbs). This is shown in Table 13. The 2007 question only asked for an estimate of the number of energy saving light bulbs in the home.

Energy Saving Lightbulbs

Here at BuilderScrap.com we’re looking at the actions people are taking to use less energy (primarily gas and electricity) in their homes and the extent to which saving energy in the home was seen as a priority. Any responsible building services company would be able to outline a plan that would detail energy saving in the home. Not only in the form of an energy efficiency rating but also the building materials and techniques used. Many of the questions covered in the previous post used the previously described stages of change response scales to assess willingness to adopt or adapt a behaviour.

Attitudes to saving energy in the home

All respondents were asked how much they agreed or disagreed with the statement “I don’t really give much thought to saving energy in my home‟. As shown in Figure 5, a large majority (77%) of respondents disagreed with this statement. Around one in seven (14%) respondents agreed with the statement. This represents a significant shift in response since 2007, when 62% disagreed with this statement and just under a quarter (23%) agreed.