Save on Energy Bills

With Christmas just around the corner and the recent icy weather conditions, many in the UK have been dismayed at bill increases by two of the UK’s biggest energy companies, British Gas and Scottish and Southern Energy. As early as late October though, The Guardian warned that the rise in the price of gas bills planned by Scottish and Southern Energy for the first of December could take average energy bills to over £1,200. They also predicted that other energy companies were likely to follow suit - and of course this has been borne out. Between the cold weather and the price increases, there has simply never been a better time to make sure your home is fully energy efficient to keep your bills as low as possible.

Bills comparison website USwitch.com recently published a step by step guide to legally rejecting your current suppliers price increases, changing suppliers and paying only the original prices in the meantime. If this appeals check the suggested steps carefully - there do indeed seem to be rules made by energy regulator Ofgem to protect consumers here, providing you follow a certain straightforward procedure.

There are also a plethora of energy saving products for your home which will help you save money on gas, electricity or duel fuel bills. You can make your radiators far more efficient with heat saving radiator panels, which keep more heat in your rooms. Then Househeat is an ingenious system to allow you to control the radiators temperature in individual rooms or areas like your hallway. In a nutshell, you’re simply losing money if you’re heating rooms when you’re not using them. You can also easily fit gas cooker hobs with a Gas Energy Saver to stop the flames rising up the side of saucepans where they contribute nothing to your cooking. It also converts any ‘unburnt’ gas -which you still pay for - into useful, productive heat. Finally, just one idea for saving hot water is the Nordic Ecoshower water saving showerhead, which can save an estimated 40-60% on hot water bills while still providing you with a fully satisfying hot shower.