5 of the best water & energy saving gadgets
1 - Radiator Booster
- Costs - around £25
- Annual saving - £70 - £140
- How it works - a product that featured on Dragon's Den is a small tube that sits on the top of your radiator. Inside is a thermostatic fan which draws heat from behind the radiator and blows it around the room. It requires a nearby plug socket and makes a small amount of noise but can cut your heating bill by as much as 10%.
2 - Energy smart meter
- Costs - Free from energy company
- Annual saving - £25 - £75 (equivalent to 5-15% of your bill)
- How it works - a small monitoring device is clipped to your electricity meter which sends details of your energy usage to a separate handheld screen. Armed with this information you can monitor and reduce your electricity usage and slash your bills. I guarantee the first hour after you have one of these installed will be spent wandering around your house switching things on and off while marvelling at the energy saved.
3 - LED light bulbs
- Costs - typically up to £10 a bulb
- Annual saving - £50 if you are replacing 5 bulbs
- How it works - they use around 20% less energy to produce the same light output as a traditional filament bulb. Their life expectancy is supposedly 10 times that of a fluorescent bulb and 30 times longer than a normal filament. All you have to do is replace your existing bulbs with LED ones.
4 - Energenie standby savers
- Costs - £10 each unit
- Annual saving - £40 -50 if used on multiple standby devices in your house
- How it works - you plug the Standby Saver into your electricity plug socket and then plug your electrical device (i.e. a TV which has a standby mode) into it. As soon as you put your TV into standby mode the Standby Saver will detect this and after a period of time shut off the electricity supply. The Energy Saving Trust estimate that the average household spends between £50 - £86 on electricity a year while devices are in standby mode.
5 - Hippo water saving bag
- Costs - £4.99 for 2
- Annual saving - £25 a year
- How it works - apparently a typical family uses 70% of their water in the bathroom, with toilet flushing accounting for 30% of the household water use. Every time a toilet is flushed the Hippo saves up to 3 litres of water.
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