Saving Electric in the home.

This is give you a step by step guide in how you can be more energy efficient in each room of your home.

Changing your habits will produce realistic energy savings making your bills cheaper giving you more money to spend on other things!! Saving energy usage in your home is one of two ways in saving money, the other is by changing your gas and electricity supplier, all suppliers have different rates depending on your usage so when your usage goes down you will need to change your supplier..

2 Main Rules of Saving Energy

Rule Number 1...Switch off at the plug socket.

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If you see a plug socket switched on and the appliance is off....

SWITCH IT OFF AT THE SOCKET!!

Then there is zero risk at anything being left on standby or using energy when it's not needed

Rule number 2...Change every light bulb to energy efficient light bulbs.

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Don't wait for your light bulbs to blow, change them today and here is why...

One 60watt light bulb which is on every evening

Costs £17.08 a year to run.

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One equilivent to 60watts energy efficient light bulb (11watts) on every evening

Costs £3.13 a year to run.

Energy Savings of £13.95 per bulb per year.

And that's for just ONE light bulb!!

*savings based on average usage over a year, average wattage per appliance and an average cost of electricity of 13pence per unit