Just Turn OFF the Lights and Save MILLIONS

[sanrene]

Originally Posted by Rita Mordio

In our government building, we have several commands under a single roof. Everyone turns off the lights except for the emergency ones. Each command has their own computer policy, but servers are always on. Several commands also have their own humidity/temp controlled rooms that remain going even when nobody is present - for the safety of equipment... and building.

The cleaning crew comes during the normal workday, though it disrupts our normal activities.

Perfectly acceptable and warranted. The other waste highlighted is not. No reason at all 10 stories of a federal building need to be lit up overnight. Sounds like your building is cost conscious.

[oz in SC]

You would think people who want the USA to use less of the worlds resources would be for such things....

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by rural lady

It would be a nice gift to the electric companies if everyone would turn off all their power or electric at a certain time and do that every day for a month, I think it would be a start of an eye opener to the electric companies, why doesn't anyone want to do this, why can't we fight back that way.

I guess I am just wrong

Of course I am excluding those who really need it for life support and other things necessary.

Actually the electric companies actually run programs to conserve energy usage among their consumers. It's called demand side managment(DSM) and I've been working on a program that does just that for 4 years. A lot of utility companies don't have much desire to expand their infrastructure or spend the expenses building new power plants, when the profits from $/kwh are going to roll in no matter what. And it makes it easier to manage the grid during peak periods.