And then there’s the climate...

By cutting our energy consumption, we’ll not only save money; we’ll be helping in the fight against climate change, too.

This is because climate change (sometimes called ‘global warming’) is partly a result of the huge quantities of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere by the burning of oil, coal and gas.

If we use less energy, we produce less CO2.

For more about climate change, click here.

Challenge 1

Some appliances like phone chargers continue to consume electricity when not in use. Switch off at the socket!

Switch mobile phone chargers off at the socket. Unless you do this, your charger will continue to work even when it’s not actually charging up a phone. You can tell it’s using electricity because it’ll be warm. Across the UK, mobile phone chargers left plugged in waste electricity worth over £60 million.