instead or perhaps as well as power cuts, they should think about all the buildings lit up at night

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total waste of electricity
causes light pollution
what exactly are the benefits?

Sometimes that’s true - though I think there’s often security issues behind it. Obviously no organisation should just be wasting power for the sake of it. But I don’t think turning off lights in car showrooms at 2am is any kind of solution to or substitute for emergency power cuts, which seemed to be what your OP suggested.

All supermarkets should be made to put doors on the fridges, complete waste of energy and then they turn the heating up to counteract it.

Yeah, fuck the staff, they can freeze

Shops , offices etc often leave them on for security purposes. Burglars don't like walking through brightly lit offices with cameras running. Same for car showrooms.

But you can have motion sector lights instead.

Sensor!

Where are all these commercial premises who leave lights on? I work in central London and all the lights go out when there aren't people in the room moving. The lights over my desk sometimes go out if I'm just concentrating hard on something g and the only thing moving is my typing fingers!

All of our office lights are motion sensitive. It can be a bit annoying if you haven't moved for a while and you're plunged in to darkness, but overall I really like it. The main hallway lights (communal parts) were always on but have also recently been changed to motion activated ones too.

There's absolutely no need for buildings, inside or outside, to be lit up at night.

It's a quiet day in our office today and we haven't put any heating on today either. It's not warm, but it's not unbearable either. There's no need to put the heating on to 24 degrees, when it's perfectly fine at 19 in here.

There are so many things everyone can be doing to save a bit of energy here and there.

100%

I really hope that we get better at this over time, we waste so much energy.

You think they're unaware? We've noticed this, but they haven't?

My point being the know full well what will save energy and that's a big shining beacon of energy waste.

They're liars remember. Maybe the measures they want to put in place are not about energy at all.

Surely motion sensors are much better than leaving the lights on all the time - better functionally as well as less wasteful.

I've cone to believe that if it isn't compulsory, it won't be done. Certainly I wouldn't think big, greedy chain stores would ever volunteer to be selfless.

Just back from a walk in Rivington, Lancs and the rural cafe has all of its outside spotlights on in broad and very sunny daylight. You'd think there wasn't an energy crisis.

Yes turn off unnecessary lights or turn them down/put on sensors and let us see the stars. Jupiter is stunning at the moment.

They do. I stay still so they go off and I can sit in the dark 😂

Aldi could do with turning the heating down. Even in the middle of summer my legs are being assaulted by the radiators under the packing shelf. Why they had the heating on then baffled me.

Blackpool hallucinations 😂
Might give them a go as an adult they sound fun

Agree.

I listened to someone talk about this on Radio 4.

The upshot is depending if they have LED lights it may not be huge amount BUT across all the UK it adds up and more importantly changes behaviour in lots of other ways regarding energy consumption.

Yeah the planet’s tombstone will read “here lies planet earth, we knew how to avoid killing it but it looked so pretty while it burned and st least none of our cars got nicked.” 🤦‍♀️

That’s what they do where I live. Even churches are closing down. Do as I say, not as I do don’t go down well here. At all.

Feels so hopeless doesn't it. Poor planet

Totally agree - commercial buildings being lit up out of office hours should be illegal from the first floor and above (apart from the warning lights for planes).

Absolutely no need to have lights on.

Plus it's really bad for insects.

What about Christmas lights this year?

I was thinking about this, but checking with our council, they upgraded our town lights a few years ago to LED's, so really don't use that much electricity.

@Aposterhasnoname I'm sure companies can alter uniforms temporarily to allow staff to wear extra layers 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I was in retail we were always allowed extra layers and/or jackets in winter to save money on the heating bill.