Energy bills cut with smaller TV screen, says Which?

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Energy bills cut with smaller TV screen, says Which?

Thu 23rd Oct 2008

Consumers have been told that they can reduce their energy bills by using a TV with a smaller screen.

Which?, the consumer watchdog, said that a 19 to 23-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) TV screen uses around 40 to 50 watts when it is switched on.

Typically, this costs about £11 a year to run.

This was compared to a 40-inch LCD screen, which uses nearly 200 watts more power.

It also costs four times more to run.

In further consumer news from the watchdog, it has also found that 16 of 51 online shops surveyed failed to meet at least one key shopping rule.

Which? said that online retailers ought to refund an order in full if the purchase is returned, including the delivery costs.

But it said that next.co.uk, fragrancedirect.co.uk and empiredirect.co.uk do not.

Websites that wrongly state customers have seven working days from the delivery date to make a cancellation, rather than eight, included orange.co.uk and homebase.co.uk.

Jess Ross of which.co.uk said online shopping has benefits but that "it's worrying that some of these websites are getting simple shopping rules wrong".

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