We can reduce your electricity bills by as much as 10% - simply by unplugging appliances or switching devices off at the power point they are connected to when not in use. It's good for our wallet and for our planet.

Standby, also known as phantom power loads, are responsible for an incredible amount of electricity consumption nationally. Practically every electronic device that we plug into a socket continues to consume electricity after we have switched the device off. Examples include phone charges, notebook power adaptors, microwave ovens, game consoles cd, video and DVD players

If an appliance or device has an adaptor, the easiest way to tell if it's still drawing power when the device is switched off is if the adaptor is warm.

An average home consumes approx 50 Watts of standby power an hour.

Imagine that - we could knock off 1% of the amount of carbon dioxide being spewed into the environment just by unplugging appliances and devices off at the wall when not in use and all save a few bucks on each power bill in the process!