Introduction

There are 168 hours in a week yet most offices
are only used for 50 to 60 of those hours. In the 118 hours that the office isn’t occupied anything unnecessarily left on consumes more than twice the energy it does during occupied hours.

Improve your shut down practices

• Prepare a list of what must be left on during unoccupied periods
• Identify what doesn't need to be left on, but often is - this is your target!
• Appreciate and communicate the cost of leaving things on
• Improve staff switch off practices
• Make sure the things meant to automatically turn off do actually stop running
• If possible force office items to switch off with timers, and favour manual on/auto off
• Make it easy to shut down standby loads
• Buy equipment that actually shuts down.

This information was prepared for Sustainability Victoria by Bruce Rowse, Energy Doctor Pty Ltd.
www.energydoctor.com.au