Energy Conservation Tips Program Highlights Suggestions California Energy Management Waste of Energy Through "Vampire Devices"

Energy Conservation Tips

1. Turn equipment and lights off after hours.
2. Keep your exterior and freight doors closed as much as possible.
3. Turn off fluorescent lights when leaving an area for more than 10 minutes. Turn off incandescent lights when leaving areas for any period of time. 
4. In areas with sufficient day lighting, turn off lights. 
5. Use task lighting and turn off general lighting, where it is feasible to maintain sufficient lighting levels for safety and productivity. 
6. Turn off printers when not in use. 
7. Turn off monitors when not in use. 
8. If available, use lap top computers, they use up to 90 percent less energy than a standard computer. 
9. Refer to SLAC SCS web page  for instructions on how and when to shutdown your CPU. 
10. Ensure personal appliances, such as coffee pots are turned off, especially in the afternoon; heat coffee in a microwave. 
11. Close window blinds to shade your rooms from direct sunlight.
12. Keep freezer compartments of the refrigerators free of ice build up.
13. Ensure that ventilation grilles are not blocked.
14. Where feasible, schedule high electrical energy use processes during off-peak periods.
15. When appropriate, use e-mail instead of sending memos and faxing documents.
16. When acceptable, use double-sided printing. 
17. Try not to use copiers during peak demand period; turn off selected copiers; ensure power saver switch on copiers is enabled.
18. Choose ENERGY STAR® products whenever possible.
19. Turn off redundant refrigerators.

Note: Summer peak usage hours: Noon – 6:00 pm

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Program Highlights

• Change a Light Pledge (published in SLAC Today, October 4, 2006)
• Presidential Directive on Energy and Fuel Conservation (published in The Interaction Point, November 4, 2005)
• SLAC's 2005 Comprehensive Energy Management Plan (PDF, 212K)
• DOE Honors Luda Fieguth as Energy Champion (published in The Interaction Point, June 17, 2005)
• Luda Fieguth: EPA Champion of Green Government (as published in The Interaction Point, June 18, 2004)
• Site Lighting Upgrade Program (as published in The Interaction Point, May 7, 2004)
• Choose Energy Star Products (as published in The Interaction Point, March 21, 2003)
• Waste of Energy Through Vampire Devices (as published in The Interaction Point, March 07, 2003)
• May 2002 Energy Management Update (as published in The Interaction Point, May 2002)
• November 2001 Energy Management Update (as published in The Interaction Point, November 2001)
• October is National Energy Awareness Month (as published in The Interaction Point, October 2001)
• August 2001 Energy Management Update (as published in The Interaction Point, August 2001)
• July 2001 Energy Management Update (as published in The Interaction Point, July 2001)
• Energy Management Success (as published in The Interaction Point, June 2001)
• SLAC In-House Energy Management Program (as published in The Interaction Point, May 2001)

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Suggestions

• Submit your Energy Conservations Suggestions to our suggestion box (SLAC only)

California Energy Management

• Today's Supply of and Demand for Electricity in California
• PG&E Energy System Current Status
• Incentives and Rebate Programs
  • Check out the home energy saving measures and predictions of percentage savings, developed by Berkeley Lab's The 20% Solution

Choose ENERGY STAR Products

Federal Executive Order 13123 of June 3, 1999 calls for Federal agencies, when acquiring energy-using products, to purchase ENERGY STAR® products (if life-cycle cost-effective and available). For product groups where ENERGY STAR® labels are not yet available, we are required to select products that are in the upper 25 percent of energy efficiency as designated by the DOE Federal Energy Management Program.

For more information go to ENERGYSTAR.GOV.

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Waste of Energy Through "Vampire Devices"

Federal Executive Order 13221 of July 31, 2001 (Energy-Efficient Standby Power Devices) states the following:

Each agency, when it purchases commercially available, off-the-shelf products that use external standby power devices, or that contain an internal standby power function, shall purchase products that use no more than one watt in their standby power consuming mode. If such products are not available, agencies shall purchase products with the lowest standby power wattage while in their standby power consuming mode.

For more information go to the Standby Power Data.

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