Top energy saving devices for your home

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.

By using the energy saving setting on your dishwasher, each year you could save about £23 on your electricity bill and save 90kg of CO2 as it uses 40% less energy than washing on normal settings. You can top this of course by washing up by hand. This use a tiny fraction of the water needed in a dishwasher because 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.

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 equal free energy and can stop 1.2 tonnes of CO2 from being be emitted into the atmosphere. Currently you can’t support your entire electricity needs through solar panels, but they can supply around 50% and if you do produce a little extra, 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.

Boilers account for 60% of our personal contribution to climate change in the UK, so to have a big impact on pollution levels it is worth getting an energy-efficient one. These will cut your CO2 emissions by 875kg per year and your gas bill by around £170.

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.

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