paulr

I guess it depends on supplier does it,and what time of the day it is?

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npower At home - Energy efficiency - Your energy guide - energy efficiency from npower.

OllyK

Yup - it will depend on the supplier and the package you are on.

paulr

Anyone got any prices?

TopBanana

It used to be 4p. Could well be anywhere up to 10p now, but it will depend on your contract

OllyK

Running Costs Calculator - 9.8p looks like a working figure

unclebuck

Take a look on your bill - it should tell you what you are paying per unit.

And yes, stupid huge wide screen TVs and mega load home cinema sound systems etc use loads, even when left on standby..

De Warrenne

£40/MWh wholesale, by the time it gets to us lucky peeps its between 7 - 9p a kWh, plus your standing charges...

Of course, in this insane world, the more you use the cheaper it gets - woohoo!

De Warrenne

Also, ta for the link, I sometimes do energy training and its always good to translate power units into understandable things

hades

Yep at say 10p/kWh, if left on standby a DVD player or similar could well use about 1p of electricity every 24 hours. In rough figures, the cost is about the same as the petrol used in 55 meters of your daily commute in a Scoob.

De Warrenne

yeah but, yeah but....

your telly is doing nothing, while your scoob is transporting you 55 meters

Chelspeed

> your telly is doing nothing

You're kidding? It's saving you having to walk across the room and press the big button next time you want to watch it. Added up over the year walking across the room 365 times is a LOT more than 55m.

On a more (but not completely) serious note, what about thermal cycling? Every time you turn the telly off it means another thermal cylce of all the critical electronic components. Say they're good for a thousand cycles, leave it one standby and it lasts for ever, turn it off every night and it blows up and you need a new one every 3 years. Where's the money saving (and global cost) if you buy a brand new telly every 3 years?

The numbers are all tongue in cheek but just trying to point out that you shouldn't just beleive everything you read in the papers, there are pros and cons of everything.

hades

The numbers may be tongue in cheek, but your point is completely valid. If you leave elecctronic kit in standby will last a lot longer than if you turn it on and off regularly. Whether the energy saving of building a new DVD player more often is worth more or less than the energy saving of leaving it on I couldn't say.

Trucker Ted

we've had a Hot tub installed two weeks ago, so the next electricity bill should be quite interesting .The company guarantee it should only cost around £3.50 per week,used 1 hr per day.Got a feeling it will cost nearer a tenner per week, but its still good fun.

De Warrenne

fair point, but how many of you wait until your kit breaks down before buying a new one?

(I think I'm opening a can of worms here, from my knowledge of the SN crew its split equally between those for who anything over 6 months old must be replaced by the new model and those for whom anything less than 15 years old is still 'all the rage')

BTW I don't know the life cycle costs of DVD players either

hades

Similarly how many sell it on second hand, so it's used by someone else until it breaks down? Again, I have no idea; I think we're just agreeing that we really don't know the total environmental impact either way.

FWIW I'm still on the first DVD player I ever bought as I got one that did what I wanted (RGB SCARTs, DD&DTS out via co-ax, multi-region and decent picture/sound). Once blu-ray/HD-DVD is well established I'll upgrade, but until then I won't unless something breaks down.