[Cutting the cost in the Living room]

Cutting the cost in the living room

The following table demonstrates the typical yearly electricity consumption for a living room. 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 619kWh, which would cost around £42.12.

It also would be responsible for the emission of 270.39 kg of carbon dioxide.

Individual Possibilities

i) Avoid putting lights on in the morning, try eating breakfast or watching news by a kitchen window - saves 7 hours electricity per week.
Switching a light off that would normally be on for one hour a day would save £1.49 a year and also prevent the emission of 9.56kg of CO2 per year.

ii) Try watching one hour less television a day - saves 7 hours electricity per week.

Watching on hour less TV per day would save £3.72 a year and also prevent the emission of 23.90kg of CO2 per year.

National Benefits

These two simple measures would result in energy savings of;

21.9 kWh - by switching light of for an hour a day
54.8 kWh - by watching one less hour of television every day

Total electricity savings = 76.7 kWh

i) So across Scotland this would be saving approximately.

76.7 kWh x 2,350,000 houses = 180,127,500 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 180,127,500 kWh/year = 81,057,375 kWh/year

iii) For fossil fuels every kWh of electricity produces 0.97 kg of CO2

0.97kg x 81,057,375 kWh/year = 78,625,653 kg/CO2

Annual reduction in emissions due to switching lights off during breakfast (1 hour a day) and watching one hour less TV a day.

1.9 % of Household CO2 Emissions (1.9% of 3,983,250,000 kg)

0.11 % of Total CO2 Emissions (Scottish total = 72,300,000,000 kg)

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