Saving energy requires advice and time

"We actually decided to dry our sheets and towels outside the day before yesterday. The dryer cost us 112 kroons last month. Of course, our stuff did not dry in one night and then it started pouring down as well. I guess I will have to go and bring these soaking sheets back in today and stuff them into the dryer," says Heidit Kaio jokingly when describing the obstacles to saving energy.

The energy-saving experiment launched by the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia and the Energy Discovery Centre last autumn reached the first conclusions in December. The experiment focussed on the energy-saving solutions and options found by two families, Saale and Tõnu Randaru, and Wend and Heidit Kaio. Everyone could follow their efforts in the blogs the families kept at minuenergia.wordpress.com, which had been visited by more than 22,000 people by the beginning of December.