I borrowed one of those little things from @Papa Lazarou that you put between a device and the plug socket and it reports how much energy that device is using.
It's confirmed our aged fridge freezer, that we had kept in use because it works and not throwing something away feels like the right thing to do, is quite electricity hungry. It uses just short of 2kWh per day, so about £200 per year at current 30p/kWh unit cost.
By way of comparison, looking up a Samsung American-style fridge freezer at AO.com, rated a lowly F for energy (I understand they changed these ratings a few years ago as pretty much everything was an A, it would cost £119 per year. A more conventional Samsung fridge freezer model would cost only £75 per year.
I think we need to change our fridge freezer.
It's confirmed our aged fridge freezer, that we had kept in use because it works and not throwing something away feels like the right thing to do, is quite electricity hungry. It uses just short of 2kWh per day, so about £200 per year at current 30p/kWh unit cost.
By way of comparison, looking up a Samsung American-style fridge freezer at AO.com, rated a lowly F for energy (I understand they changed these ratings a few years ago as pretty much everything was an A, it would cost £119 per year. A more conventional Samsung fridge freezer model would cost only £75 per year.
I think we need to change our fridge freezer.