Electricity

To work out the emissions associated with your electricity, type in the number of kWh you've used in the box below. You can find this on your energy bills.

Some typical values are given in the table below (source: Act on CO2). 'Everything' includes central heating, water heating and appliances.  If you use gas for central heating, water heating or both you can offset those emissions here.

  I use electricity for... (kWh)
No. of bedrooms

Everything

 Everything except central heating Everything except central heating and water heating
1 13,100 5,400 2,600
2
 18,000 7,300 3,600
3
 22,000 8,700 4,100
4 27,900 9,700 4,400
5 36,500 10,800 4,600
6+ 43,900 14,000 4,600