Energy conservation:

Energy conservation refers to efforts made to reduce energy consumption. Energy conservation can be achieved through increased efficient energy use, in conjunction with decreased energy consumption and/or reduced consumption from conventional energy sources. Energy conservation can result in increased financial capital, environmental quality, national security, personal security, and human comfort. Individuals and organizations that are direct consumers of energy choose to conserve energy to reduce energy costs and promote economic security. Industrial and commercial users can increase energy use efficiency to maximize profit.

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1 Energy conservation policies 2 Climate change 4 Issues with energy conservation5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Energy conservation policies

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Low-energy building techniques and technologies in an Energy conserving building. Electrical energy conservation is an important element of energy policy. Energy conservation reduces the energy consumption and energy demand per capita and thus offsets some of the growth in energy supply needed to keep up with population growth. This reduces the rise in energy costs, and can reduce the need for new power plants, and energy imports. The reduced energy demand can provide more flexibility in choosing the most preferred methods of energy production.

In this energy conservation there are TWO METHODS are there.  Renewable energy source  Non renewable energy source

Energy Conservation

Energy conservation is an important global environmental issue both because there is a limit to the worlds supply of fossil fuels and because of the environmental benefits of switching to clean sources of alternative energy. In 2006 about 18 percent of world energy usage came from renewable sources of energy. 13 percent came from traditional biomass sources, 3 percent from hydroelectric power generation, with newer sources of alternative energy such as wind power and solar accounting for 2.4 percent of total world energy production.

The primary source of disagreement is the priority of developing countries to implement cheap sources of energy and the priority of developed countries to control emissions and promote the use of alternative sources of energy. As a result, it is estimated that world-wide wind power generation is growing at a rate of 30 percent annually with similar rates of growth for solar, biofuel and geothermal energy production. As a consequence, total estimated world-wide investment in all renewable energy sources went from 63 billion dollars in 2006 to almost double, or 120 billion dollars, in 2008.