New houses waste energy
Posted by admin Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:01:00 GMT
Greenpeace has today published a report about energy efficiency of new Finnish houses (in Finnish, sorry). They claim that with construction that use latest low energy techniques can reduce energy consumption to one third.
With the increasing price of energy in any form, this sounds like a very attractive proposal!
My own house is warmed with night electricity. It heats a large pot of water during the night with cheaper electricity, and then releases it slowly during the day. While this makes sense money-wise, it will still consume as much or maybe more energy than direct heating with electricity. I need to start considering changing the heating system to something that makes more sense both for costs and for environment.
