How household appliances affect energy consumption
Summary
To demonstrate how households across the UK have become overly-reliant on electricity whilst working from home during the winter months, EcoFlow has outlined a breakdown of how our daily habits impact our energy consumption, which appliances are most energy hungry and how we can change our habits to push towards a clean power future. Thomas Chan, R&D Director, Ecoflow: “The average cost of energy during winter months is at an all-time high. By becoming energy independent and using renewable sources of energy such as solar, people can avoid high electricity bills during the winter months ahead.” A survey into Britain’s most popular breakfast choices found that 4/5 of Brits’ favourite breakfast foods are cooked. Working from home not only impacts our electricity consumption as devices such as laptops (0.4kWh for 8-hour days), monitors and web cameras become essential aspects of our home office, but also allow us to carry out daily chores such as hoovering and using the dishwasher throughout the day (3.13 kWh per cycle). Simple things to look out for to reduce electricity consumption are switching to ‘eco-mode’, and ensuring to only run the appliance when it’s full.