Time to drive out the vampires

Time to drive out the vampires in your home sucking up power and costing you money.

The energy crisis has hit a new level in the UK, with the announcement that the energy price cap will rocket by 54% pushing up our energy bills by hundreds of pounds a year.

There has never been a better time to embark on a personal battle against our own energy bill daemons. 

One of the best things we can all do is end the era of vampire power.

What is vampire power you ask as you reach for the garlic and hiding behind the sofa.

The term Vampire Power describes how the devices sitting quietly around our home and in our offices and business premises suck up energy even when they’re switched off or in standby mode, The innocent habit of Standby and the innocent little red light awaiting the press of the remote to spring into life really adds up over the year.

A recent report by one of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers shows that vampire power is a serious drain on our wallets, with 16 per cent of an average electricity bill £75 coming from vampire loads.

Don’t worry if you have never heard of Vampire Power are unaware of the silent hidden phenomenon silently sucking up power and driving up energy bills - which costs collectively homes across Britain £1.6 billion annually.

As energy prices go into orbit now is the time to show the Vampire the door by taking control of our sockets is one simple way to keep costs down.

Flick the switch or pull the plug on the TV, microwave, digital tv box even your broadband router is feeding the vampire while you sleep.

We flick the switch to turn of the light without a second though but leave the devices plugged in and sucking up power as we sleep, or we head out from our home.

Take a walk around your house make a list of all the devices you have that are switched on and using electricity even when you are not using them these are the Vampires in your home.

All it needs is a flick of a switch and the vampire is cast out and the bills not getting driven quite as high so fast.