Aid to buy energy-efficient equipment might help.

The city government is required to purchase only the most energy-efficient equipment for use in city offices and public housing.

Various types of energy-efficient equipment are available, including:

Make sure the contractor has experience and will use energy-efficient equipment.

A combination of high energy taxes on consumers and strong financial incentives to industry to develop and use energy-efficient equipment made the difference.

The Administration also proposed a variety of tax credits for businesses that invest in energy-efficient equipment and roof-top solar collectors.

Moreover, the benefits of conserving energy are long term, while the cost of investing in more energy-efficient equipment is immediate.

Energy labelling schemes make it easy to identify energy-efficient equipment that can help you make savings.

Consumption labelling is, in my view, an important free-market instrument for promoting the use of energy-efficient equipment.

So we should perhaps talk about finding other ways of promoting energy-efficient equipment and gradually removing the big energy wasters from the market.