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Save up to £37 a year

Switch your appliances off

Turn your appliances off

Turn your appliances off instead of leaving them on standby and you could save up to £37 a year. 

Source: Energy Saving Trust, 2008

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Save up to £65 a year

Thermostat

Turn down the heat

Turning down your thermostat by 1 degree and you could save up to £65 a year. 

Source: Energy Saving Trust, 2008

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Shower not a bath

Have a shower, not a bath

Did you know a bath can use twice as much energy as a shower? That’s based on comparing an 80 litre bath with at 44°C with a 7 minute shower at 41°C, using average UK water heating systems.

Source: Waterwise/Energy Saving Trust, 2008

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Kettle

Don’t fill the kettle up

If we all only boil what we need for a cup of tea rather than filling up the kettle every time, we’d save money and enough electricity in a single year to power the street lights in the UK for more than six months. 

Source: Energy Saving Trust, 2008

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Radiator

Don’t block your radiators

Try not to put furniture in front of a radiator, as it could soak up most of the heat that’s being put out.

Source: Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes/Energy Saving Trust, 2008

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The important information

*The figure of 166 is the potential saving achievable by an EDF Energy customer with a typical consumption supplied on our standard tariffs, meeting the challenge to reduce their annual household energy consumption by 20% through energy saving measures. Typical consumption means 3,300 kWh of electricity and 20,500 kWh of gas each year.