Earth Hour 2013 energy savings increase across B.C.

VANCOUVER – British Columbians saved 136 megawatt hours of electricity and reduced the provincial electricity load by 1.95 per cent during Earth Hour Saturday night – the equivalent of turning off more than 10 million 12.5-watt LED light bulbs. Many communities across the province successfully improved their Earth Hour energy savings from the previous year. Comox and Courtenay saw the highest reduction at nearly 10 per cent.
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• The top five B.C. communities for this year’s Earth Hour were: Comox, Courtenay, North Saanich, Sidney and Qualicum.
• In 2012, British Columbians saved 121 megawatt hours of electricity and reduced the provincial electricity load by 1.67 per cent during Earth Hour – the equivalent of turning off about 9 million 12.5-watt LED light bulbs.

 Local 2013 Community Savings %
Lumby 4.1, Coldstream 2.7%, Vernon 2.1%, Armstrong 0.8%, Spallumcheen 0.8%, 
Enderby 0.2% 

Local 2012 Community Savings %
Reduction in Consumption Local Earth Hour results: (Full list )
Lumby   4.5%,   Coldstream  3.8% Vernon   3.4%, Enderby 2.6%