A website has been launched to help householders gauge how much CO2 output is coming from heating water in their homes.
Operated by the Energy Saving Trust, the site also features ways for homeowners to conserve water and energy as well as reducing their carbon footprint. The Trust says that CO2 emitted from heating water in UK homes makes up five per cent of total carbon emissions for the country.
The EST has put the calculator online as an interactive way to engage householders in carbon cutting techniques at home. According to EST’s water strategy manager, Andrew Tucker, the tool will be an easy-to-understand way for people to connect water and energy efficiency and usage to savings and their personal carbon footprint.
The calculator offers specific information per household and provides users with personalised reports indicating how much water and energy has been used in that particular household. Additionally it calculates the cost of usage and the amount of carbon emissions output.
Under the Climate Change Act, former Labour Government established a legally binding target that will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by 80 per cent of 1990 levels. Also, the new coalition government, in its first Queen’s Speech promised an Energy Bill would be introduced in parliament this year.
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