Praetorian Outsource Marketing learnt
recently that Britain’s households waste £1.3bn simply by not turning off
everyday gadgets.
Praetorian Outsource Marketing works with a
number of clients who provide utility funded home insulation schemes.
Consequently they’re all about helping their clients' customers to reduce their
home energy bills. So when they learnt that such a huge sum was being wasted
each year because people leave them on, they decided to spread the word!
Research from the Energy Saving Trust and
two government departments has revealed that every year homeowners a wasting a
combined £1.3bn of their hard-earned money by not fully turning off computers,
televisions and other electronic devices. The study worked out that homes were
spending between £50 and £86 a year on gadgets that are on standby. This is
equivalent to 9%-16% of the average electricity bill.
A spokesperson from Praetorian Outsource
Marketing said, “That is a huge figure, not just as a whole but as a percentage
of people’s bills. Our clients provide solutions that help people to get their
houses properly insulated which is the biggest cause of energy wastage in the
home. What we hadn’t realised was that this is also a huge factor, and
something so easy to rectify.”
What the research further showed was that
single-person households were using as much, and in some cases more, energy to
run appliances such as ovens and washing machines as the average family. It
calculated that a washing machine and tumble dryer costs on average £80 of
energy a year to run and £35 is spent on powering computers. Shockingly to the
team at Praetorian Outsource Marketing if you own a home cinema style set-up
you could be spending £300 a year to power it!
This research certainly throws
preconceptions on their head. At Praetorian Outsource Marketing we can
definitely understand that it would be frustrating to fully switch off the TV
and computer throughout the day but it’s very easy to turn them off fully at
night when they’re going to be on standby for 12 hours. If you’re not convinced why not do a test,
suggests Praetorian Outsource Marketing? Take a meter reading at the beginning
of the week and carry on as usual, take another meter reading at the end and
then have a week where you make an effort to switch everything off. When you
take the reading at the end of that week you’ll be able to see if your usage
has gone down!
Praetorian
Outsource Marketing is a national outsource marketing and sales company based
in Birmingham with offices throughout the West Midlands and in Southampton. For more information please visit http://www.praetorianmarketing.co.uk
