There is nothing more effective than high energy prices to promote efficiency in its use!

Sarsfield Cabral, Opinion writer for Publico

“Sleep” features that power down home office equipment and other electronic devices that are turned on but not in use can save households up to $70 annually.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

The technical and implementation options — the everyday work of energy efficiency practitioners — are mostly unknown, however, to those econometricians who lie awake nights worrying about whether what works in practice can possibly work in theory.

Amery Lovins

American households typically spend more than $200 annually on air conditioning. Households in some regions of the South can easily spend twice that much.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

The average household spends $1,400 each year on energy bills. By choosing Energy Star-qualified products, consumers can cut this by 30 percent, saving about $400 each year.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

These “negawatts” have been every bit as valuable in economic terms as the “produced watts” of energy they replaced. With today’s energy prices a negawatt of energy savings costs about half of what it costs to produce the same amount of energy. The cheapest, most competitive, cleanest and most secure form of energy for the European Union thus remains saved energy.

Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner

The difference between a car that gets 20 MPG (miles per gallon) and one that gets 30 MPG amounts to $1,800 over 5 years, assuming gas costs $1.80 per gallon and one drives 12,000 miles a year.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

Improvements in automobile efficiency since 1973 are saving consumers $151 billion in 2004 alone—more than twice as much as the federal government spends each year on education.

Alliance to Save Energy, 2005

An accountant highlighted GBP 2,000 of overtime in one month in a large energy intensitve industry, but did not mention that the monthly energy bill at GBP 50,000, amounted to 25 times the overtime paid. When this fact came to light, the production department counted energy instead of overtime and costs fell by GBP 13,000 per month – enough to pay for the entire accounts department!

John Eggink, Managing Energy Costs

Energy saving is without doubt the quickest, most effective and most cost-effective manner for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as improving air quality, in particular in densely populated areas.

European Commission, 2005