Small steps towards big savings
- A screen saver is not necessarily an energy saver.
The average desktop computer consumes between 60 to 250 watts a day. Compared with a machine left on all day, a computer that is in use four hours a day and turned off the rest of the time would save you about $70 a year, not to mention the enormous reduction on CO2 emissions.
So make it a habit to turn off your monitor when you leave your desk and shut down your computer when you're leaving for the day.
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Africa must quadruple power investment to supply electricity for all, IEA says
JOHANNESBURG - African countries will need to quadruple their rate of investment in their power sectors for the next two decades to bring reliable electricity to all Africans, an International Energy Agency (IEA) study published on Friday said.
If African countries continue on their policy trajectories, 530 million Africans will still lack electricity in 2030, the IEA report said. It said bringing reliable electricity to all Africans would require annual investment of around $120 billion.
“We’re talking about 2.5% of GDP that should go into the power sector,” Laura Cozzi, the IEA’s Chief Energy Modeller, told journalists ahead of the report’s launch.…
