Our friends at Energy Savvy continue to be great visual communicators of the benefits of energy efficiency. Yesterday we stumbled across this great infographic that provides a powerful visual demonstration of the economics, as well as the job-creating potential, of residential energy efficiency vs. building nuclear power plants.
In short: For less than half the cost of replacing just 1 nuclear power plant, we could retrofit 1.6 million homes for energy efficiency and reduce the need for the same amount of energy the plant would produce. Doing so would also create 90 times more jobs than replacing the power plant.
In addition to the job-creating benefits of a residential energy efficiency project of this scale, it would improve indoor comfort and reduce utility bills for 1.6 million families. You can imagine the economic benefits of that.
Without further ado, we present to you the brilliant nuclear vs. energy efficiency infographic from Energy Savvy:
Comments
Robert--
The data behind the infographic is here on the Energy Savvy site, from which this was taken. The nuclear cost data has definitely generated a lot of discussion. There is quite a comment stream on this topic on a version of this that was cross posted on the Energy Collective site.
That said, what I particularly liked about this infographic was the efficiency jobs information. Too few people understand that investments in efficiency are job producing, and not particularly outsourceable.
PT
Posted by Peter Troast on Jul 22, 2011 8:17am