Save Energy Save Money
Follow our best practice advice to help your club save energy
and money
Best Practice
Low cost measures:
- Monitor energy use
- Install energy efficient light
bulbs
- Adopt a switch off policy
- Insulate heating pipes
- Check room temperature and thermostat
settings are between 18 and 21 degrees
- Turn off heating in unused rooms
- Ensure fridges and vending machines
are installed away from heat sources and south facing windows
- Turn down hot water to 60 degrees
- Keep windows clean to ensure maximum
natural light
- Ensure radiators are not obstructed by
furniture
- Fit draft excluders to doors and
windows
- Install automatic switches on hand and
hair dryers
- Switch to a proven green tariff for
electricity supply
- Print double sided
- Take advantage of tax incentives to invest in energy saving
equipment
- Look for funding possibilities
- Clean filters and extractor fans to
keep them working efficiently
- Regularly maintain and service
heating
- Complete the Marine Toolkit
- Complete the RYA's Site Audit
Checklist
- Get the whole club on board and
involved. Why not encourage members to save energy by setting a
reasonable target of a club resource that could be purchased as a
result of saving money on energy
Higher cost measures
- Install light sensors which will
automatically switch off lights when no one is around
- Insulate wall and roof cavities
- Install double glazing
- Replace hot water tanks which heat and
store water with an efficient instant “heat on demand” or combi
system
- Install solar hot water heating
panels
- Install photovoltaic cells - Check out
the feed in tariff
- Install wind generators
- Invest in power down equipment to switch off non
essential equipment at night
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