Author(s)

OMAR A. BORDA

Abstract

This paper is a partial advance of the research that seeks to determine the consumption habits of household appliances that are friendly to the environment, in Bogota households. It begins with a documentary review of the laws, decrees, and norms, where the state’s concern for a conscious consumption of resources in the generation of energy from renewable and non-renewable. In the research of primary sources, when analysing international cases of Australia, Poland, Turkey, and Romania, through fieldwork and a review of databases established a census of Bogota families living in single-family homes. The results of the analysis categories be recorded in a statistical model, and then built a corrected linear regression of said results is carried out with the databases of the National Department of Statistics. In the second stage of the investigation, it’s created a document that consolidates the levels of the return via savings and investment versus expense.

Keywords

energy saving, renewable and non-renewable energy, home appliances, international experiences, case study