With the average energy bill hitting £2,500 a year from this month, many households are looking for ways to keep their gas and electricity costs down amid the rising cost of living .
MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis has become well-known for regularly issuing helpful advice to Brits to ease the crisis, from ensuring they access the right support to suggesting different hacks to try at home. One of his latest tips offers a handy calculation to work out how much household appliances cost to run.
Martin explained that there’s an easy way to calculate the energy cost of an appliance by finding its wattage - how much electrical power it takes to run - and knowing that there are 1000 watts in a kilowatt (kW). He wrote on Twitter : “You pay roughly 34p per kW per hour.”
