[Cutting the Cost]
Cutting costs around the house, Individual Possibilities, National Benefits
Cutting costs around the house
The following table demonstrates the typical yearly electricity consumption around the house. To estimate your own yearly consumption figures try our Home Electricity Consumption Guide. This will enable you to see how much electricity you use per year, also the typical costs and the amount of CO2 used per year.
This average consumption shows an average electricity use of 441.13kWh, which would cost around £30.00.
It also would be responsible for
the emission of 192.55 kg of carbon dioxide.
i) Stop using hall lights in the morning as you pass through to other rooms in the house - assuming two hall lights this would save 14 hours electricity per week.
Switching two lights off that would normally be on for one hour a day would save £2.98 a year, this could also prevent the emission 19.12 kg of CO2 per year.
Simply switching off two lights that do not really need to be on in the mornings would result in energy savings of 43.8 kWh a year
i) So across Scotland this would be saving approximately.
43.8 kWh x 2,350,000 houses = 102,930,000 kWh/year
ii) As mentioned earlier 45% of Scotland's
electricity is produced from fossil fuels - so figure needs to be adjusted
to reflect this.
0.45 x 102,930,000 kWh/year = 46,318,500 kWh/year
iii) For fossil fuels every kWh of electricity produces 0.97 kg of CO2
0.97kg x 46,318,500 kWh/year = 44,928,945
kg/CO2
Annual reduction in emissions due to switching hall lights off in the
morning
1.1 % of Household CO2 Emissions (1.9% of 3,983,250,000 kg)
0.06 % of Total CO2 Emissions (Scottish total = 72,300,000,000 kg)
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