efergy

The efergy meter has been designed to identify which home appliances use the most power, and how to run them in the most efficient way. With the UK average bill now reaching around £800 and electricity prices increasing dramatically, reducing domestic power consumption can give you significant cost savings – as well as doing your bit for climate change.

Each year, an average UK household spends:

£36 running a tumble dryer
£27 running a washing machine
£70 on lighting
£40 operating a dishwasher
£30 powering a basic computer
£60 running a fridge-freezer

To ensure a healthy environment and a strong economy in years to come, young people must understand the important role they play in creating this sustainable future.

The efergy meter is an excellent educational device for the family. It is easy to use, displays your family's energy consumption, increases awareness of important issues related to the environment and generates a positive debate in the family about daily habits.

Stereos and TVs on standby cost £380m, and produce 2m tons of CO₂. Mobile phone chargers left plugged in cost £60m, and produce 250,000 tons of CO₂.

For every pound saved on an electricity bill, you're also saving 6kg of carbon dioxide – what a coal-fired generating plant would emit while making this much power.

This page last updated: 23 September 2008