When you leave for work in the morning, your house could "check" for and turn off unnecessary energy consumers such as radios, TVs, stoves and irons (a nice safety feature). On your way home, you could use your cell phone or computer to change the temperature in your home, turn on lights, turn on the radiant heat in your bathroom floor and fill the bathtub to just the right level for a nice long soak.

Energy Saving Facts

• Switching off 1 bulb for one hour saves up to 22,000 watts per year.
• The average household could save around £200 a year by taking energy efficiency measures. This is equivalent to a saving of around 2 tonnes of CO2.
• Nearly £5 billion is wasted on energy in the UK every year. This is enough to give every man, woman and child £84 a year.
• Closing your curtains at dusk to stop heat escaping.
• By upgrading heating controls you will improve the efficiency of any central heating system, and cut your energy wastage and costs by up to 17%. Fit the right heating controls as well as a condensing boiler and you could bump the savings up to 40%
• In most homes, lighting accounts for 10 – 15% of the electricity bill
• UK households use £1.2 billion worth of electricity every year on lighting
• Electricity consumption by domestic lights and appliances has nearly doubled since 1970 and it is set to increase by 12% to 2010.