Energy Saving Devices For The Home

By Author: Dave Sabri
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Start small; energy saving light bulbs use up to 80% less electricity than standard bulbs and because they last 10 times longer, they will save you anything from £3-£6 per year, so around £45 over the lifetime of the bulb.

If you use the energy saving setting on your dishwasher, you could save around £23 a year on your electricity bill and save 90kg of CO2 as it uses 40% less energy than washing on normal settings. Better still, wash by hand as this use a tiny fraction of the water needed in a dishwasher and you are the power source behind it.

We can't turn our fridges and freezers off, but if everyone in the UK switched to an energy-efficient one, we would save around £800 million and the equivalent CO2 emissions of almost 500,000 houses.

You can also save £365 each year if you get the correct insulation in your roof and cavity walls. Depending on your level of current insulation, you can save anything from 1000kg to 1.8 tonnes of CO2 each year.

You can get free energy by using solar panels mean and stop 1.2 tonnes of CO2 from being be emitted into the atmosphere. Although at the ...
... moment you can't support your entire electricity needs through solar panels they can supply around 50% and if you produce enough, you can even sell your excess back to the National Grid. You can save another £65 a year by using it to heat your water and 645kg less CO2 will be chucked into the atmosphere.

Seeing as boilers account for 60% of our personal contribution to climate change in the UK, it is worth getting an energy-efficient one. These will cut your gas bill by around £170 and cut your CO2 emissions by 875kg per year.

By making sure you boiler has a complete set of heat and radiator controls including timers and thermostats you'll save a further £100 on your bills and up our total UK energy savings by 1.4 tonnes a year.

British Gas will help make the switch to a modern, energy-efficient boiler a little less painful this summer. If you buy a new or replacement boiler from them by 25 July, you will get £400 off the boiler plus free home care for one year and free heating and radiator controls. So there has never been a cheaper time to go green.

British Gas is a leader when it comes to gas and electric prices. Compare their energy prices to find out of you could save.