10-21-2022, 08:51 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...07807.html
Households in the UK could save more than £400 a year on energy bills if putting the clocks back in October is scrapped, an expert has said.
Professor Aoife Foley from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast said the country is in an “energy war” at the moment.
Britons are preparing themselves for sky-rocketing energy bills this winter after Russia’s war in Ukraine caused a spike in oil and gas prices.
Professor Foley, who specialises in clean energy research, says that by getting rid of daylight savings, consumers could save hundreds of pounds.
The academic said: “By simply foregoing the winter Daylight Savings Time (DST) in October, we save energy because it is brighter in the evening during winter, so we reduce commercial and residential electrical demand as people leave work earlier, and go home earlier, meaning less lighting and heating is needed.
Personally, I'd never previously been a fan of scrapping DST: I didn't like the fact that it'd mean both my journeys to and from work would be in the dark (whereas with DST, the journey there is in daylight, and only the journey home is in the dark). But now that I'm working from home most days of the week, that isn't so relevant any more... and if doing this means saving £400 in energy bills, then I'll gladly take that !
What are your thoughts?
Households in the UK could save more than £400 a year on energy bills if putting the clocks back in October is scrapped, an expert has said.
Professor Aoife Foley from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast said the country is in an “energy war” at the moment.
Britons are preparing themselves for sky-rocketing energy bills this winter after Russia’s war in Ukraine caused a spike in oil and gas prices.
Professor Foley, who specialises in clean energy research, says that by getting rid of daylight savings, consumers could save hundreds of pounds.
The academic said: “By simply foregoing the winter Daylight Savings Time (DST) in October, we save energy because it is brighter in the evening during winter, so we reduce commercial and residential electrical demand as people leave work earlier, and go home earlier, meaning less lighting and heating is needed.
Personally, I'd never previously been a fan of scrapping DST: I didn't like the fact that it'd mean both my journeys to and from work would be in the dark (whereas with DST, the journey there is in daylight, and only the journey home is in the dark). But now that I'm working from home most days of the week, that isn't so relevant any more... and if doing this means saving £400 in energy bills, then I'll gladly take that !
What are your thoughts?
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