ENERGY

Renewable energy is your home’s best friend.

Upgrade to renewable energy in your home. Take this step and decide a level of commitment that works for you. Try it for a month to see how you do.

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Switch To Clean Energy

Moving to renewable energy is key to our journey back towards the safe space within the climate planetary boundary. Phasing out fossil fuels will substantially reduce air pollution, slow down ocean acidification and slow down escalating species extinction rates. Changing your energy source at home is easy and has lots of impact. Whether you’re switching energy providers or using solar panels, you’ll help reduce carbon emissions, and send a clear signal to businesses and politicians that people want to decarbonize the energy system.

Individual Impact

Combined Impact

Effort

Tips

Move to the clean energy option from your current utility provider. If they don’t have one, ask for one or search for another local provider.

If using renewable energy is not possible for you right now, you can still take action by letting your politicians know that this is something you care about.

Some of the cleanest and cheapest energy available is powered by the sun. Solar panels generate electricity by capturing the sun’s energy using photovoltaic cells. Even on a cloudy day, the cells can still generate electricity and power your home with cleaner energy. To get an idea of your home’s solar potential, use Google Project Sunroof or the PVWatts Calculator.

Benefits

Moving away from fossil fuels, like crude oil, gas and coal, to renewable energy sources reduces carbon emissions, and sends a demand signal to electricity providers and governments.

Installing solar power both reduces your carbon emissions and saves you money in the long run. Installing solar panels encourages those around you to do the same. The more people adopt solar, the more affordable it becomes.

Steps

REFERENCES

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognizes that electricity from sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydro and nuclear produces zero emissions at the point of generation.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Solar photovoltaics can grow to a wide range of 6235–10100 terawatt-hours by 2050, avoiding 27–69 gigatons of greenhouse gases emissions
Project Drawdown, Distributed solar photovoltaics
Impact metric calculations
To determine the carbon emission reduction estimates related to switching to a clean energy supplier and/or installing solar panels, the following calculations were performed:
Switch to a clean energy supplier:
(3,471 kWh/household/year) x (0.475 kg CO2e/kWh) / (12 months/year) = kg CO2e reduction / month
Get some solar
(3,471 kWh/household/year) x (0.475 kg CO2e/kWh) / (12 months/year) = kg CO2e reduction / month
For detailed calculations, references and assumptions, please see our Methodology page.

Impact metric calculations