The Virtual Forest: a Unión Fenosa initiative to look after the environment

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We will help you improve your energy performance and reduce your consumption.

54.804

people involved

2.630.592 kg

of CO₂ not emitted

27.402

trees planted

measure your saving and reduce CO2 emissions

It will only take a few minutes to complete our questionnaire and find out how to save energy. We will send you a completely FREE, personalised report, full of advice for increasing your saving.

You will improve your energy performance, saving an average of 60 Kwh a year, avoiding the emission of half the CO₂ absorbed by a mature tree in a year.

Please firstly provide us with your name so we can address you more cordially, together with the province where you live.

Your name:

Country:

Thank you. We will now ask you a few questions about your home.

Firstly about the hot water:

What type of heater or boiler do you have?
And what type of energy do you use for heating water?

About your home’s heating:

What type of heating do you have?

And what type of energy do you use for heating?

Does your home have air conditioning?

Yes

Finally, about your electrical household appliances

Which of these do you have in your home?

	Fridge		Washing machine
	Dishwasher

This is easy right? We now need you to provide us with information about your use of certain electrical household appliances.

For cooking, do you use a traditional cooker or a rapid pressure cooker? (We are talking about both the traditional pressure cooker and the rapid pressure cooker or “thermomix”).

When you cook, do you try to use a pan or pot with a greater diameter than the stove or hotplate?

While using the oven, do you open the door to check the food’s progress?

You normally defrost the freezer...

When you cook and put the food in the fridge (to store or refrigerate it) Do you wait for it to cool first?

Roughly how often do you clean the external rear of the fridge?

Do you take the precaution of leaving the ventilation holes of household appliances and surface of radiators free?

Which wash programme do you use most frequently in your washing machine?

Do you normally use the half load programme?

Do you normally use the cold wash in your washing machine (from 0 to 40º C)?

Before putting plates in the dishwasher ...

Do you normally use the half load programme in the dishwasher?

What programme do you normally use in your dishwasher?

Do you know which appliances in your home consume most energy?

Only a little more!!!

Do you normally use the highest consumption household appliances at the same time?

How often do you clean the surface of the light bulbs or tubes?

Before going out or going to bed, do you normally make sure that any unnecessary lights have been switched off and appliances are turned off too?

Before going out or going to bed, do you normally switch off all (with the appliance’s power button, not with the remote control) the appliances in your home (televisions, stereos etc)?

Where is your main heater/water heater/boiler located?

Depending on whether its summer or winter, do you change the water temperature in your heater/water heater/boiler?

How often do you get your gas boiler checked and serviced?

When do you normally switch off the heater?

Just a few more questions!

Do you have water flow reduction systems (aerators) installed in the taps? (These are systems that allow water to spray out of the tap, with small bubbles)

How old is your main heating system? i.e. How old is your boiler?

At what temperature do you normally set the boiler’s thermostat in winter?

What do you normally do with the heating in winter at night?

And on a normal day, when there's no one at home (out working, studying, shopping etc), what do you normally do with the heating?

Where are the air-conditioning vents situated?

At what temperature do you normally set the air-conditioning’s thermostat/s in summer?

What system or systems do you normally use for keeping out the sun in summer?

Awnings

Textile protection inside (curtains, blinds...)

Yes

Shutters

Deciduous plants outside

Yes