Cold

• UK households spend £1.2 billion worth of electricity every year on cooling and freezing food and drinks.
• An efficient new fridge-freezer uses only half the electricity of an inefficient one.
• Refrigeration and freezing appliances in UK homes use nearly as much electricity as all offices.

Wet

• UK households spend £800 million worth of electricity every year using washing machines, tumble-dryers and dishwashers.
• An efficient new washing machine uses a third less electricity of an inefficient one.
• Washing clothes at 40Cº instead of 60Cº uses a third less electricity.
• An efficient new tumble-dryer uses a third less electricity than an inefficient one.
• Gas tumble dryers cost half as much to run as electric dryers and they also produce one third less greenhouse pollution per year.

Lighting

• UK households spend £1.2 billion worth of electricity every year on lighting.
• An energy efficient light bulb uses only one quarter of the electricity of a normal bulb, and it also lasts ten times longer.
• Modern CFLs weigh a quarter of old CFLs.
• One unit of electricity supplied to a customer can provide the same amount of light for 10 hours or 40 hours for exactly the same price depending on the type of light bulb used.
• Install a CFL now and save enough energy to allow you grandchildren to drive 1,500km.
• If every UK household installed 3 CFLs this would save enough energy in a year to pay for all street lighting.
• The British public walks to the moon and back twice every year to change lightbulbs. CFLs last 10 times as long as a standard bulb: save your shoe leather – install a CFL!

Consumer Electronics

• UK households spend £700 million every year on electricity used in consumer electronic products.
• Set-top boxes for the reception of digital TV are being given away for free, by 2010 they could be costing UK households £357m every year in electricity or £14 per household.
• Every year, VCRs in the UK use £113 million, and TVs £50 million, worth of electricity just waiting to be switched on.
• 85% of the electricity used by your VCR is consumed while it is not actually on.

Cooking

• UK households spend £800 million worth of electricity every year when cooking.
• More than a quarter of electricity is wasted when you cook your food without a lid.
• A gas oven costs a quarter of the price of running an electric oven.
• Office equipment energy consumption is 3400M kWh per year costing £200M per year

Commercial Office

• In some sectors, office equipment can account for more than 70% of energy consumption and 80% of energy costs
• In air conditioned offices energy consumption due to office equipment and cooling the heat it produces is typically 4700M kWh per year costing nearly £300M per year. This is over 20% of energy use.

General

• UK households spend £5.3 billion worth of electricity every year on domestic lights and appliances.
• Electricity consumption by domestic lights and appliances has nearly doubled since 1970.
• Domestic lights and appliances account for 24% of UK electricity consumption.
• Domestic lights and appliances account for 24% of UK electricity consumption.
• Domestic lights and appliances account for 69% of UK domestic electricity consumption.
• Electricity consumption by domestic lights and appliances account for 6% of UK carbon emissions.
• An area 3 times the size of the Isle of Wight would need to be planted with Sitca spruce to absorb the carbon resulting from the use of domestic electric lights and appliances.
• Digital TV is set to increase electricity consumption by domestic lights and appliances by 7% by 2010, accounting for more than half of the total projected increase.