Turning off lights, lowering thermostats and installing motion detectors are among the ways central European governments have begun energy saving, as part of efforts to trim costs and avoid shortages in the incoming heating season to address cuts in gas supplies from Russia. Central Europe is vulnerable to the standoff with Russia, with some countries still dependent on Russian gas and all facing surging electricity prices across the continent. The Czech government announced on Thursday it was unscrewing half of the lightbulbs at the government office and swapping remaining old bulbs for less-consuming LED sources. It was installing movement sensors to cut down lighting in corridors and turning off festive floodlights of the 19th century downtown Prague building. Heating – normally around 22 degrees Celsius (71.6 F) or even warmer in Czech offices – was being lowered to 19-20 C inside the government building, Prime […]