Canberrans reduce electricity use for Earth Hour 2010

ActewAGL is proud to announce that during Earth Hour 2010 Canberra's electricity use was 283,356 kWhs, which is 16,689 kWhs less than what ActewAGL predicted the usual electricity usage between 8.30 and 9.30pm on Saturday 27 March would have been in the absence of Earth Hour.

This predicted figure is based on historical usage data for electricity used on days that have a similar profile and consumption rate to the day that Earth Hour falls on. During Earth Hour 2009 Canberrans used 264,828 kWhs, which was again lower than the predicted electricity use of 291,984 kWhs.

Based on this year's predicted use of 309,234 kWhs and the actual usage on 283,356 kWhs, there was a 5.6 per cent drop in Canberra's electricity usage, which represents a reduction of 17.86 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and is the equivalent of taking 4.15 average cars off the road for an entire year.

ActewAGL will purchase accredited GreenPower through its Greenchoice program equal to the electricity used by the city during the hour, which will be the equivalent to taking up to 71 average cars off the road for one year.