Hot water was an instant gas unit. We are now renovating and have now partially installed a 30 tube evacuated tube collector and storage tank which we will combine with the gas booster. I'll be interested to see what that does to our gas consumption.
All our lighting is compact fluorescent. We use laptops instead of PCs. We have multiple switches for turning off standby power on grouped devices like stereos and computers. We don't have a big TV - we have a small old one but generally don't use it. Our house had three bedrooms and was not a big house. All these things helped keep our consumption down. Now with the renovated house it will be interesting to see how we go. The area is larger but the design is passive solar oriented so I'm hoping that our overall energy consumption will at least stay the same, if not drop a little further.
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