Why Switch Off?

Whether you are motivated for environmental or financial reasons switching off standby makes sense.

If each householder in the county switched off standby every year we could save on average £13,186,541!

This is equal to 21,315 tonnes of carbon, which could fill 444,352 double decker buses!

Below you can see how much each district could save in pounds and tonnes of carbon, per year.

Area	No. of households	Average cost savings per year, £	Average tonnes of carbon saved per year	No of Double Decker Buses the carbon would fill
Blaby District Council	35,908	£1,328,596	2,148	44,770
Charnwood Borough Council	60,472	£2,237,464	3,617	75,397
Harborough District	30,849	£1,141,413	1,845	38,463
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council	41,085	£1,520,145	2,457	51,225
Melton Borough Council	19,615	£725,755	1,173	24,456
N.W. Leicestershire District Council	35,394	£1,309,578	2,117	44,129
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council	21,922	£811,114	1,311	27,332
Leicester City Council	111,148	£4,112,476	6,648	138,580
TOTAL Savings	356,393	£13,186,541	21,315	444,352

Amount an average household saves per year by switching off standby = £37
Assumptions:
Number of households taken from Community Profiles 2005, www.leics.gov.uk/index/your_council/about_leicestershire/statistics/community_profiles.htm, 040808 @ 15.45
Average household savings in pounds, tonnes of carbon and equivalent taken from taken from the Energy Saving Trust. For Double Decker calculations unit price of electricity = 7.12p.

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