Change Your Habits and Reduce Your Bills

There are many new products coming onto the market which are aimed at reducing energy consumption within the home, in this blog we will look at two products which do just that but also require people to change bad habits.

The first product is the Television Standby Saver which stops electricity being wasted when a tv, dvd or stereo is left on in standby mode. Many people choose to leave tv's permanently in stand by mode when not in use, normally when left in standby mode the equipment will still use around 60% of electricity as it remains ready to be switched on, however with the Standby Saver the current is reduced almost to zero in standby mode and only enough remains to pick up the infra-red signal from the remote when the tv needs to be switched on.

The second product is the Eco Kettle, which only boils the quantity of water you need. On average a person will waste 90 seconds boiling a kettle by over filling it, if you add together all that time over a year that is quite a large amount of electricty wasted. When you fill the Eco Kettle water is stored in a reservoir and only a set amount is released into the boiling chamber, when the kettle is boiled the water remaining in the reservoir is not boiled. The amount of water which is released into the boiling chamber can be adjusted should you require to boil more water.