ઊર્જા બચતએ ઉર્જાનો મહત્તમ ઉપિયોગ અને તેના બગાડને રોકવા ના પગલા છે. જે આજના યુગની તાતી જરુરિયાત છે.

Energy conservation refers to efforts made to reduce energy in order to preserve resources for the future and reduce environmental pollution. Energy conservation can be achieved through increased efficient energy use, in conjunction with decreased energy consumption and/or  reduced consumption from conventional energy sources. 

Energy conservation can result in increased financial capital, environmental quality, national security, personal security, and human comfort.   Individuals and organizations that are direct consumers of energy choose to conserve energy to reduce energy costs and promote economic security. Industrial and commercial users can increase energy use efficiency to maximize profit

ઉપાયો
Electrical energy conservation is an important element of energy policy.  Energy conservation  reduces the energy consumption and energy demand per capita and thus offsets some of the growth in energy supply needed to keep up with population growth.  This reduces the rise in energy costs, and can reduce the need for new power plants, and energy imports.  The reduced energy demand can provide more flexibility in choosing the most preferred methods of energy production.

ઋતુ બદલાવ
By reducing emissions, energy conservation is an important part of lessening climate change.  Energy conservation facilitates the replacement of non-renewable resources with renewable energy. Energy conservation is often the most economical solution to energy shortages, and is a more environmentally being alternative to increased energy production.

દેશવાર માહિતી

India
Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) is an Indian government body created in 1976 and engaged in promoting energy efficiency and conservation in every walk of life. In the recent past PCRA has done two mega national wide mass media campaigns in television, radion & print media which have been well received by the massess and end users of petroleum products. An impact assessment survey by a third party revealed that due to these mega campaigns by PCRA,over all awareness level have gone up leading to saving of fossil fuels worth crores of rupees besides saving dear "EARTH" from pollution. Due to these mega campaigns, many awards won by PCRA is just testimony of sincere effords by tireless PCRA for the sake of nation. For further details you may like to see website www.pcra.org

Bureau of Energy Efficiency is an Indian governmental  organization created in 2002 responsible for promoting energy efficiency and conservation.

જાપાન માં
Since the 1973 oil crisis, energy conservation has been an issue in Japan. All oil based fuel is imported, so indigenous sustainable energy is being developed.

The Energy Conservation Center promotes energy efficiency in every aspect of Japan. Private entities are implementing the efficient use of energy for industries.

લેબેનોન
In Lebanon and since 2002 The Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC) has been promoting the development of efficient and rational uses of energy and the use of renewable energy at the consumer level. It was created as a project financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Ministry of Energy Water (MEW) under the management of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and gradually established itself as an independent technical national center although it continues to be supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as indicated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between MEW and UNDP on Jun.  -જાપાન

ન્યુઝિલેન્ડ
In New Zealand the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is responsible for promoting energy efficiency and conservation.

યુરોપિયન યુનિયન 

At the end of 2006, the European Union-EU pledged to cut its annual consumption of primary energy by 20% by 2020.  The 'European Union Energy Efficiency Action Plan' is long awaited.

As part of the EU's SAVE Programme ,  aimed at promoting energy efficiency and encouraging energy-saving behaviour, the Boiler Efficiency Directive specifies minimum levels of efficiency for boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels.

United Kingdom

Energy conservation in the United Kingdom has been receiving increased attention over recent years. Key factors behind this are the Government's commitment to reducing carbon emissions, the projected 'energy gap' in UK electricity generation, and the increasing reliance on imports to meet national energy needs. Domestic housing and road transport are currently the two biggest problem areas.

The and Wales and 21,660,000 of these being occupied if each home used an energy monitor and saved an average of 20% of electricity there is a potential saving of 1.9 million tones of carbon.

અમેરિકા

The United States is currently the largest single consumer of energy. The U.S. Department of Energy categorizes national energy use in four broad sectors: transportation, residential, commercial, and industrial.

Energy usage in transportation and residential sectors, about half of U.S. energy consumption, is largely controlled by individual domestic consumers.  Commercial and industrial energy expenditures are determined by businesses entities and other facility managers.  National energy policy has a significant effect on energy usage across all four sectors, and its strengthening is part of the 2010 Presidential-Congressional legislative debate.

પ્રષ્નો
Advocates and critics of various forms and policies of energy conservation debate some issues, such as:

 Standard economic theory suggests that technological improvements increase energy efficiency, rather than reduce energy use. This is called the Jevons Paradox and it is said to occur in two ways. Firstly, increased energy efficiency makes the use of energy relatively cheaper, thus encouraging increased use. Secondly, increased energy efficiency leads to increased economic growth, which pulls up energy use in the whole economy.  This does not imply that increased fuel efficiency is worthless, increased fuel efficiency enables greater production and a higher quality of life. However, in order to reduce energy consumption, efficiency gains must be paired with a government intervention that reduces demand (a green tax, cap and trade).

 Some retailers argue that bright lighting stimulates purchasing.  However, health studies have demonstrated that headache, stress, blood pressure, fatigue and worker error all generally increase with the common over-illumination present in many workplace and retail settings.  It has been shown that natural daylighting increases productivity levels of workers, while reducing energy consumption.

 The use of telecommuting by major corporations is a significant opportunity to conserve energy, as many Americans now work in service jobs that enable them to work from home instead of commuting to work each day.

 Electric motors consume more than 60% of all electrical energy generated and are responsible for the loss of 10 to 20% of all electricity converted into mechanical energy.

 Consumers are often poorly informed of the savings of energy efficient products. The research one must put into conserving energy often is too time consuming and costly when there are cheaper products and technology available using today's fossil fuels.

 Technology needs to be able to change behavioural patterns, it can do this by allowing energy users, business and residential, to see graphically the impact their energy use can have in their workplace or homes. Advance real-time energy metering is able to help "people" save energy by their actions. Rather than become  wasteful automatic energy saving technologies, real-time energy monitors and meters such as the Energy Detective, Enigin Plc's Eniscope, Ecowizard, or solutions like EDSA'a Paladin Live are examples of such solutions

આ પણ જુઓ

 Annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE)
 Biofuel
 Biogas
 Renewable natural gas
 Brushless wound-rotor doubly-fed electric machine
 Daylighting
 Active daylighting
 Passive daylighting
 Ecolabel
 Energy Star
 Energy saving
 Efficient energy use
 Electrical energy efficiency on United States farms
 Energy-efficient landscaping
 Category: Energy conservation
 Energy plus house
 Energy crisis
 Energy monitoring and targeting
 Energy audit
 Energy recovery
 Energy Saving Modules
 Energy Saving Trust
 Energy-Service Company
 Fuel efficiency
 Fuel economy
 Green building
 Green computing
 Green Ethernet
 Heat Pump
 High temperature insulation wool
 Lighting
 Light pollution
 Over-illumination
 List of low-energy building techniques

 Low Carbon Communities
 Low energy building
 Low-energy house
 List of low-energy building techniques
 Category: Low-energy building
 Low-energy vehicle
 Marine fuel management
 Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards
 MIT Design Advisor
 Oil price increases since 2003
 One Watt Initiative
 Over-consumption
 Passive house
 Passive cooling
 Passive solar building design
 Plug-in hybrid
 Renewable heat
 Solar energy
 Solar air heat
 Solar hot water
 Passive solar building design
 History of passive solar building design
 Superinsulation
 Sustainability
 Sustainable design
 Sustainable architecture
 Sustainable landscaping
 Sustainable landscape architecture
 Sustainable gardening
 Sustainable agriculture
 Micro-Sustainability
 List of sustainable agriculture topics
 Renewable heat
 Thermal efficiency
 Thermoelectric Modules
 Timeline of environmental events
 World energy resources and consumption
 Zero energy building

References

 Gary Steffy, Architectural Lighting Design,  John Wiley and Sons (2001) ISBN 0-471-38638-3
 Lumina Technologies, Analysis of energy consumption in a San Francisco Bay Area research office complex, for (confidential) owner, Santa Rosa, Ca. May 17, 1996
 GSA paves way for IT-based buildings 
 The official homepage for the European Intelligent Metering project.

Notes

External links

 Energy saving advice and grants for UK consumers
 Product and technology reviews 
 Energy efficiency and renewable energy  at the U.S. Department of Energy
 EnergyStar - for commercial buildings and plants
 California high performance buildings program 
 Global List of Energy Efficiency and Conservation related Organizations on WiserEarth
 The Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation 
 Microsoft Hohm Energy-Saving Recommendation Library 

 
Energy policy
Environmental issues with energy
Building engineering
Sustainable building