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Carbon saved by getting a gadget to keep an eye on your machines

There are an increasing number of products on the market to help keep an eye on your energy consumption, and also helpfully automatically turn off your appliances from standby. Getting one may save you anything up to 25% off your electricity bill, as well as the carbon emissions that go with it, so is definitely a worthwhile investment.

Carbon saved by getting a gadget to monitor your energy use, or turn your appliances off standby:

Around 400 kWh are wasted each year from devices and gadgets left on standby, or chargers left plugged in. ¹ Using our grid electricity conversion factor of 0.545 kg CO2 per kWh ², this translates to CO2 emissions of:
400 x 0.545 = 218 kg CO2 per year or

= 0.59 kg CO2 per day.

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Reference Notes

1 Using data from 'How to live a low-carbon life' by Chris Goodall (2007), page 171, Earthscan

2 According to figures from AMEE: http://explorer.amee.com/categories/UK_electricity_methodology*, the platform behind DEFRA's Act On CO2 carbon calculator. GHG conversion figures can be found here -* http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/conversion-factors.htm
And the methodology behind AMEE's calculations are here - http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/change_energy/tackling_clima/ind_com_action/calculator/calculator.aspx*. As specified on page 64 of methodology document, the electricity emissions factor to use is the most recent 'grid rolling average' figure.*