devices those which drain power when they re on standby. i ll reveal the biggest cuplrits. a real mad night in manchester as city edge real madrid in a seven goal thriller in the champions league semi final first leg. saying goodbye to harry. hundreds turn out in cornwall for the funeral of the world war two veteran. good morning from trafalgar square which for one day only has been transformed into a wild meadow as part of a campaign to connect us with nature. an east west split in the weather, in the east, clouded and grey, in the west, sunny intervals is small cloud develops. more of the details coming up later. it s wednesday 27th april. a high courtjudgment is expected today on claims that the government
a year on standby. if you ve got a set top box or a satellite receiver, you could be paying more than £20 a year by leaving it switched on. your modem or broadband router is another costly culprit to the tune of £19 annually when not in use. microwaves, especially those with digital displays, and printers could also be adding to your bill although not by as much. in total, totally switching off 13 widely used appliances could save the average household £147 pounds a year, the equivalent of two months electricity charges. we asked one energy expert what we could do to protect ourselves from these vampire devices. a lot of this is common sense but it s a case of bringing your home under control, and doing everything you can to possibly minimise wastage. and i think that we can all stop wastage in homes such as leaving lights on,
ben can explain more. the lights are the easy ones are things but there are these so called devices. these offending items are scarily called vampire devices, because they re phantom suckers of power. you might think they re switched off but they re costing you money. and as you say every penny counts at the moment. we ve been talking a lot energy bills over the past few weeks, the price cap went up at the beginning of the month meaning higher bills for millions of us. there aren t cheaper deals to be had so some of these costs are unavoidable. but, today british gas told us that unused electronics left plugged in, turned on or in standby mode, are pushing up some people s bills without them knowing. the company s research found one in five of us didn t know some items use power even when they re not being used. lots of us admitted to not turning things off completely. so which items are the biggest cuplrits? the tv you re watching me on now is one of the biggest drains on power costin
had from that, a lot of nights lying awake in bed, just going, i don t know how we re going do it. like many of us, sarah s home has its fair share of technology and devices powered by electricity. i already see there s plenty of devices out here. there s quite a lot of devices. i ve got alexa, a smart metre, phone charger all on that side. what have we got going on in here? is this a smart tv? yes. do you leave it on standby? yes, we do. and why do you eave it on standby? i mean, you don t think it s going to cost a lot because it s not doing anything. but our technology filled homes are a big part of the problem. every time we switch this tech to stand by, we are victim to so called vampire devices. this is technology which still draws power even when it s not in use or it s in standby mode. individual devices don t use that much electricity, but, when we multiply it by all of the consumer electronics that fill our homes, it all starts to add up. britain s largest electricity suppl