Saving energy is not expensive or difficult to do. Top tips include:
- Putting in cavity wall and loft insulation – these are amongst the most effective ways to reduce heat loss from your home – and your energy bills. By installing loft insulation, you could save over a third of your heating costs. Insulating cavity walls provides one of the biggest energy savings in the home, reducing heat loss through the wall by up to 60%.
- Fitting a jacket to your hot water tank.
- Regularly servicing your appliances (particularly boilers) to make sure they’re working at maximum efficiency.
- Keeping heat in and draughts out with brushes on your doors and letter boxes and sealant strips on your windows.
- Leaving your TV and other appliances on standby wastes energy, so turn your TV off at the wall and save up to £37 a year.
- Turning down your thermostat by 1 degree could save you around £65 a year.
- Taking a shower instead of a bath uses a third of the water and could save you around £20 per person per year on energy bills.
- Replacing the light bulbs right through your house with energy saving equivalents. This could save you around £45 per bulb over their lifetime.
