Free Home Energy Saving kits available to borrow from your local library
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30-06-2022 10:04am#1
Just for anyone looking to monitor their energy use, you can borrow an Energy Saving Kit from your local library. If they dont have it on premises they can order it from another library and you'll have it when the next ones becomes available. Contained within it is the following-
- Temperature & Humidity meter
- Fridge/Freezer thermometer
- Radiator Key
- Black & Decker Thermal Leak detector
- Plug in Energy Monitor
Just got mine yesterday and already discovered the fridge & freezer were not running cold enough so sorted that out by turning them down. Played around a bit with the plug in energy monitor on appliances like the kettle and espresso machine.
Bit of data from boiling a 2,000 watt kettle on the basis of a day unit price of 39 cents (inc.VAT)
- Full up (1.6 liters) 5 minutes to boil which used 0.15kw/h, cost was 6.5 cents
- 400ml took 1min36secs to boil using 0.05kw/h, cost was 0.0195 cents
Extrapolating that to three uses a day for a full year
Full kettle- Є71.17
400ml- Є21.35
Will play around with the thermal leak detector later this evening but reckon it might be better used in the winter when it is a lot colder outside than inside so will likely borrow it from the library again then.
This is it
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