Christmas has gone a bit mad. It’s amazing how any people take two whole weeks off. Which means you’re at home using up energy for fourteen days in mid-winter when it’s at its coldest and darkest. With energy prices as high as they are and set to sky-rocket even more, it’s time to get things under control. Here’s how.
10 tips for saving energy at Xmas
- turn out your tree lights and fairy lights whenever you go out. You also cut the risk (and cost) of setting your house on fire!
- buy LED lights. They use less around 90% less energy as well as being cooler and safer
- Buy fibre-optic tree lights. They’re about as low-energy as it gets
- light the rooms you’re using, switch off everywhere else
- turn your heating down when you’re making Christmas lunch and let the simple fact that you’re cooking keep things at a comfy temperature. And cook with energy in mind: will it cost less to microwave ingredients or bung them in a grilling machine instead of using the oven?
- turn off your main room lighting to give your Christmas tree the extra-sparkly and dramatic prominence it deserves
- switch off your heating, tree and fairy lights off at night, inside and out
- bear in mind that the more people are in your house, the more body heat they emit
- wear your Christmas jumper indoors… go on, you know you want to!
- snuggle up: shut the curtains, close all internal doors, use draught excluders and fit thermal door curtains