January 21st 2008, Our House, Derby
It seems that our guess why the freezer consumption went up from 3.03kwh to 3.36kwh after we made all the changes was correct.
Having taken up a lot of the empty space with plastic milk bottles filled with water the freezer is now pretty much full, but having to freeze a lot of water in the first place is what increased its electricity consumption for a brief period.
The good news is that, having made the changes, the consumption of the freezer has gone down by 21% from 3.03kwh per week to 2.40kwh.
Combined with the 96% saving we got by putting those items on charge onto a timer, the total electricity consumption in the garage has dropped from 5.3kwh per week to 2.49kwh per week. That’s a total drop of 53% which in turn reduces our carbon footprint by very nearly 60kg of CO2 per year.