Best energy saving products?

GGow

I've got a few products to try and help cut down my electricity bills. Most recent and best one is a Treegreen energy egg I got from Tesco.

Does anyone else have one and what products do you use to help save money on bills?

NeverInDebt

Easiest and cheapest way to cut down on bills is switch off at mains when devices are not in use, some devices like modern tv/pvr are meant to be kept on as they tend to use less than 1 watt now

£40 thats a lot of money to waste on a device

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.211-6239.aspx

Plushchris

Yeah I'd love to know how long it would take to make a return on something like that..

phototest

- Switch off all stand-by devices at the mains.
- Avoid devices with copper coil transformers.
- Replace light bulbs with LED light bulbs.
- Buy only energy efficient devices (fridge, washing machine et al).
- Avoid tumble dryer and hang the washing to dry.
- Switch your computers, printers, Internet, Cable box et al off (mains off) over night.

penrhyn

GGow wrote: »

I've got a few products to try and help cut down my electricity bills. Most recent and best one is a Treegreen energy egg I got from Tesco.

Does anyone else have one and what products do you use to help save money on bills?

What other green products have you bought?

My advise is to only boil the amount of water you need in the kettle, and only use just enough water to cover your vegetables, the same applies when having a bath.

Piyush_Agarwal

Hi all,
As i know by using fossil fuels, smart meters, eco cables we can save energy and we should use Energy Saving Trust Recommended logo products, those will certainly help us to save energy.

GGow

What hooked me was the calculator on the treegreen website. I was forwarded a link to it by a colleague and turns out I can save quite a bit - so the £40 cost isn't too steep. Plus it lets me switch off sockets that are behind the sofa

Im quite good for switching things off, but sometimes I just forget and I leave my router on all day which must cost me a fortune. I've tried a few devices like the owlmonitor but they don't really do much except tell me how much Im wasting

eurmalian

It's great to see how many people have failed to read the question here and just posted generic energy efficiency advice...

I personally like my Standby Saver, but that's purely because I'm a lazy sod

GGow

Im quite open to any energy saving tips - some of them Im aware of already, some are new to me though like the copper transformer

Yeah you're not alone. I don't like to admit it, but part of the reason I bought the egg was so I could switch off everything at once without having to go round all the sockets - glad to see Im not the only lazy b

savemoney

A router uses very little energy, I leave mine on 24/7 uses less than 8w

It will take you a long time to recoup £40 cost, some of the devices still uses energy abet less than maybe the device it switched off, that said many modern appliances use very little energy and are designed to be on standby.

Cheapest device I got was a switchable mains socket, so I turn off xbox360, amp, wii, blue-ray player when not in use and it costs me very little and I put it in a place I can easily reach

GGow wrote: »

What hooked me was the calculator on the treegreen website. I was forwarded a link to it by a colleague and turns out I can save quite a bit - so the £40 cost isn't too steep. Plus it lets me switch off sockets that are behind the sofa

Im quite good for switching things off, but sometimes I just forget and I leave my router on all day which must cost me a fortune. I've tried a few devices like the owlmonitor but they don't really do much except tell me how much Im wasting

GGow

Yeah on the treegreen calculator my router cost was pretty steep. If I could have it switched off when it's not being used Id save a fortune, so I fully expect to recoup the 40 bucks in around 7-8 months on just the router alone.

Everything else it switches off is bonus. Plus it means Im not wasting energy like I was before, and now Im not worrying about leaving all my junk on when I go out cos it automatically switches it off

I do have a standby saver with a timer on it but its a pain always changing the timer on it