One hour of energy conservation isn’t enough: NSP
Posted Mar 29, 2010 05:35:46 AM.
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The province’s power utility hopes that Earth Hour can be a lesson on how to live every day.
Nova Scotia Power is pleased with the results from this year’s hour-long blackout, but the company would like to see a similar commitment to energy conservation applied year-round.
NSP reports an 18-megawatt decrease in power consumption between 8:30 and 9:30 Saturday night compared to a typical Saturday.
That’s because Nova Scotians marked Earth Hour, along with over 300 communities in Canada, and many more around the world.
Spokesperson Stacey Pineau says 18-megawatts is a significant drop in power use.
“What that translates into is about 1.4 million 13-watt compact fluorescent
light bulbs,” said Pineau.
Pineau hopes consumers learned a thing or two during Earth Hour.
It’s just reminding people how easy it is to save energy,” she said. “How easy it is,
when you’re leaving a room, to turn off a light, to turn off your computer or your television.”
She says power conservation is incredibly important to the utility’s future as it tries to break away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
