Energy Saving in the Home
Energy Saving in the Home
With energy prices rising significantly in recent times, reducing our energy consumption and bills is on all of our minds. Please find below some helpful advice on ways that you can do this, whilst reducing your carbon footprint at the same time.
What is an EPC?
An EPC is an Energy Performance Certificate. It helps you to understand the energy performance of your home and gives it a rating from A-G (A is the most efficient). This enables you to identify areas where your homes energy performance could be improved. Making changes to areas that are identified in your EPC as performing poorly can help you to reduce your emissions and save money.
Top 5 Tips
• Wash your clothes at 30°c.
• Turn off appliances at the wall and don’t leave on standby.
• Use energy saving light bulbs and turn off lights when you leave the room.
• Bleed your radiators and set temperature valves below 5.
• Check your boiler settings and reduce the flow temperature. – Advice on how to do this can be found on the link:-
https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/should-i-turn-boilers-flow-temperature-down/
Links to Energy Saving Advice
If you would like to access more tips and detailed advice on saving energy and reducing your bills please check out the links below:-
https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/hub/quick-tips-to-save-energy/
https://helpforhouseholds.campaign.gov.uk/energy-conservation/
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice-households/actions-saving-energy
https://www.uswitch.com/energy-efficiency/free-energy-saving-tips/
