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The UK’s first ‘Energy Saving Day’ showed disappointing results with a small increase in UK energy consumption on the day. 

 ‘E-Day’’s purpose was to promote saving energy by challenging the UK public to conserve their energy and make a difference starting on this one day. 

However E-Day, which happened between 6pm on Wednesday 27 February 2008 and 6pm on Thursday 28 February, had little or no effect on demand with a small increase of 0.1% compared to the national everyday average.  Matt Prescott, organiser of ‘E-Day’ said: “I am obviously disappointed that E-Day didn’t succeed in having a measurable effect on the UK’s electricity use.” 

Much hard work and effort was put into the website and organisation of the event, however: “I didn’t manage to attract enough advanced publicity and public participation, despite emailing, phone or visiting almost every environmental journalists, news programme and news agency in the country.” commented Matt. 

“I would like to stage a better publicised Energy Saving Day if the support is there. I do feel pretty positive that the support is out there, as I have just received 500 supportive emails and lots of great stories about how schools and offices got involved and excited about the day.”

 Environmental News Online hopes another ‘E- Day’ is planned and is willing to give all their support.