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Demand Side Management in Hanover Customer education about the cost of stand-by mode and the provision of low cost energy saving kits reduced electricity demand, saving 3786MWh/year and reducing consumers bills, despite an increased unit cost. http://www.energie-cites.org/BD/PDF/handsm_en.pdf Stand by demonstration project in Zurich and Lausanne Switzerland was the first country to take measures to reduce electricity consumption in stand-by mode at federal level at the start of the '90s, by defining target values for consumption and creating an energy label. Today, it continues to play its part as a precursor while actions are beginning to see the light of day at communal level, as the examples of Zurich and Lausanne demonstrate. http://www.energie-cites.org/BD/PDF/zl-dsm-en.pdf Demand Side Management in Jena The consumption of domestic and office equipment in stand-by mode is estimated to be 20 TWh/year in Germany and a similar level in France. Municipal authorities, communal bodies and energy agencies have taken action on this in order to avoid or significantly reduce this superfluous consumption. In their most recent campaign to save energy entitled "Be clever when switching on", the Stadtwerke Jena announced a "golden age" to its customers. Its aim in distributing vouchers to every household is to encourage them to save energy. |
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