Energy Saving Devices

It pays to start small. Energy saving light bulbs use up to 80% less electricity than standard bulbs. They also last 10 times longer so can save you anything from £3-£6 per year, which means around £45 over the lifetime of each 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.
Fridges and freezers have to stay on all the time, but if everyone in Britain switched to an energy-efficient one, we would save around £800 million and the equivalent CO2 emissions of almost 500,000 houses.
By installing the correct insulation into your roof and cavity walls you could save £365 on your heating bill and, depending on your level of current insulation, anything from 1000kg to 1.8 tonnes of CO2.Solar panels mean free energy. But they also mean that 1.2 tonnes of CO2 won’t 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. By also using it to heat your water and therefore your house, you can save a further £65 per year on your gas bill and 645kg of CO2 emissions.
To have a big impact on pollution levels buy a new energy efficient boiler. At the moment, boilers account for 60% of our personal contribution to climate change in the UK. These new ‘green’ boilers will cut your CO2 emissions by 875kg per year and your gas bill by around £170.
If you also make sure that the boiler is a combi-boiler with a complete set of heat and radiator controls including timers and thermostats and you’ll save a further £100 on your bills and our total UK energy savings to 1.4 tonnes a year.
British Gas can save you £852 if you want to buy a new energy efficient boiler from them this summer. 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.
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