Writing task 1: Australian household energy use and Australian household greenhouse gas emissions

The first chart below shows how energy is used in an average Australian household. The second chart shows the greenhouse gas emissions which result from this energy use.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons when relevant.

The pie charts illustrate the percentage of energy consumed in an average household and that of exhaust emissions released from the energy consumption in Australia respectively in the first and another / the other picture.

Looking at the graph, it is immediately obvious that heating purpose registers the lowest energy consumption in Australia. Similarly, the smallest toxic exhaust fumes are recorded for cooling.

In Australian households, the heating part constitutes the majority of energy consumption at 42 percent while greenhouse gas emissions from heating only make up at 15 percent. A similar opposite pattern can be seen in refrigeration, lighting and other appliances purpose and exhaust emissions created from these activities which account for 7, 4,15 percent and 14, 8, 28 percent respectively.

Such significant discrepancies across energy using and toxic exhaust fumes resulting from the rest of the activities are not seen. In particular, the amount of energy used for water heating and cooling constitutes 30 and 2 percent which rather identical to the figures for the greenhouse gas emissions from these purposes at 32 and 3 percent respectively.