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Imagine living in a home that was so well designed and insulated that it almost heated itself. Or living in a city where clean, fast public trains and buses turned up on time and took you where you needed to go. Where traffic jams, road rage and pollution were a thing of the past.

Making our energy work harder doesn’t mean going back to the Dark Ages – or even to the winter of 1974 when a three-day working week, electricity rationing and power cuts got the country through an energy shortage. Although we use more energy now than we did in the 1970s, we can save more as well. In fact the UK could cut its energy use by nearly a third just by eliminating waste.

In 2007 the government outlined energy-saving measures that would reduce carbon emissions by 6 per cent by 2020, saying that two-thirds of those savings would be from households, a quarter from business and 10 per cent from the public sector. Critics said even more could be done.