Category: House & domestic

I’ve just changed my energy tariff. Octopus are now starting to offer one-year fixed price deals again, and for the sake of certainty I’ve gone with it. It’s £106 a month fixed, instead of the £110 a month I’m currently putting in against expenditure on a variable tariff, though unusually for Octopus there’s a charge if I leave early. As part of this, they sent me an up-to-date summary of my energy usage for the year – see pic. That prompted me to re-check my annual CO2 equivalent emissions, and led to this post on Facebook:

My CO2equivalent emissions will always be higher than I’d like – it comes of living on my own. But over the past three years I’ve pushed it down from 7.67 tonnes CO2e to 6.99 CO2e, which I’m rather pleased about: it’s just over a 10% reduction. That’s the full list, calculated by https://www.carbonindependent.org/ ,which includes a standard 1.1 tonnes allowance to cover the thing I incur as part of society – health, education, hospitals, armed forces etc.
It’s due to a whole host of small changes, mainly affecting domestic energy consumption. Things like using a multi-tier steamer for veg on an induction hob, instead of three separate saucepans. Slow-cooker not oven. Investing in a couple of smart switches, so it’s easy to turn all the hifi, TV, printer etc completely off instead of on standby. Every little helps!