TV, washing machine, water: the government’s plan to save energy

Turn off the TV, avoiding leaving it on standby. Use a fully loaded dishwasher and washing machine. Shorter shower. Lower fire on the stove. These are some of the ‘zero-cost behavioral measures’ envisaged by the ‘National Plan for the containment of natural gas consumption’ of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. In a context characterized by the increase in gas and electricity bills, the steps can be “implemented through an awareness campaign”, in order to “suggest a series of virtuous behaviors that can also contribute to limiting energy consumption. with a reduction in user bill costs and also positive impacts on the environment “. Among the behaviors to be promoted are those of “reducing the temperature and duration of showers, the use also for winter heating of electric heat pumps used for summer air conditioning, lowering the fire after boiling and reducing the time switching on the oven, using the dishwasher and washing machine at full load, disconnecting the power plug of the washing machine when not in operation, switching off or inserting the low consumption function of the refrigerator when on vacation, do not leave it on the stand by TV, decoder, DVD, the reduction of the hours of switching on the bulbs “. Further savings can be achieved with “behavioral measures that require even small investments on the part of users, for example with investments for the replacement of higher consumption appliances with more efficient ones, replacement of air conditioners with more efficient ones, installation of new heat pumps electric to replace the old gas boilers, installation of solar thermal panels to produce hot water, replacement of traditional bulbs with LED ones “.