Power saver

Hello and welcome to Eco Stop, Here is where you can find out how to save energy at home and ways a business can save energy and care for the environment.

We will start with saving energy at home.
Every device in your house draws power when not in use with the plug on or on standby, by making sure that you turn all electric devices off by the plug can save you Hundreds of Pounds a year.
This is not the only way you can save money, having six 60 watt bulbs on in your living room at night will cost much more than six x 7.5 watt low energy bulbs over the course of a year and the new LED spot light bulbs can use as little as 1.5 watts each and can be brighter than a 60watt or low energy bulb depending on what LED you buy.
Save money on your heating bill with extra loft insulation and wall cavity filling, both of these lower the amount of heat that is lost through you walls.
A lot of new houses have these as standard as part of the new Eco Development Schemes for sustainable living.

Solar Power
Solar Power is another new energy saver that has been more popular over the years as they develop better ways to harness the power of the sun. When looking in to solar panels the price may look extreme but did you know that solar panels have almost no Maintenance requirements, Solar panels can last for 25 years without maintenance.
Did you know?
The government pay you to have solar panels in simple terms you get paid by the Feed in Tariff for every kilowatt of power you generate. This is set by the government at a guaranteed rate of 43.3p per KW for the next 25 years.
On top of this, on 50% of the power you generate you receive an extra 3p per every KW that you can pass on to the National Grid.
So taking average figures, on a 2.2KW system (most installs are bigger than this at around 4KW)
Typical income from a 2.2 KWh Solar Power Install on an average home.
The cost of installing this domestic Solar Power system is approx £9500

2.2 Kw system                3.9 Kw System                               10 years     25 years       10 years       25 yearsPayments from Feed in Tariff:   £8,173        £20,433        £14,489       £36,223Exported electricity:           £280          £700           £510          £1275Value of electricity used:      £1630         £4075          £2110         £5275Total income:                   £10,083       £25,208        £17,109       £42,773

Now that you know about the benefits of solar power I will move on to ways that you can help the environment.

Recycling
This is starting to become a major part of everyday life, reusing plastic, metal, paper, etc. There are many different types of plastic that can be recycles in different ways Recycled scrap plastic is more often than not recycled in to something completely different to what it started out as, plastic bottles could easily become your garden furniture, a point worth noting is that it is not always possible to recycle it over and over again and here in the UK we still don’t have recycling facilities for all types of plastics, typically the likes of yoghurt pots and butter containers either go to landfill sites or are shipped to overseas plants for recycling. More details about this can be found here: Plastic Recycling