We all love our regular brew of a day. Whether
it’s tea, coffee or just plain healthy hot water with a twist of lemon. Some of
us work from home more nowadays so we’re boiling the old kettle more often for
those essential cuppas. Some of us have big families so we’re making multiple
cuppas at a time, multiple times a day.
How much precious time, energy and water is
being wasted whenever we switch the kettle on? Is it more economical to run a
home water system with instant hot water? Everyone uses their kettle and their
Virgin Pure system differently, so we can’t give you a definitive,
one-size-fits-all figure, but we carried out our own independent tests with the
Water Regulation Advisory Service to compare the power usage of our home water
system to an ordinary domestic kettle.
Which uses less energy?
In the test, we did the following:
Filled four mugs per day with
boiling water
Allowed eight hours per day for
the water system to be in energy saving mode (typically when you are sleeping)
Included all power used by the
water system whilst on standby
The Virgin Pure home water system
returned an average energy usage of 0.025kWh per use or 128.448kWh per year.
In comparison boiling a kettle returned
energy usage of 0.11kWh per usage or 169.433 kWh per year.
So the kettle used 32% more energy in a
year than the Virgin Pure system.
Result!
Which wastes less water?
According to the Energy Savings Trust, 75% of people admit
to using too much water every time they boil a kettle and 40% of households in
the UK boil the kettle more than 5 times per day.*
In comparison, your Virgin Pure water system provides just
the right amount of piping hot water needed at the push of a button. So you can
enjoy great hot drinks and help save the planet at the same time. Discover more
easy ways
to reduce water usage at home with our article.
Which
takes less time?
If you boiled your kettle six times a day to
fill 2 mugs at a time, you’d spend nearly an hour and a half a week waiting for
it to boil. That’s around 73 hours a year.
If you have a Virgin Pure system, how long do
you have to wait? You don’t.
Enough said? Time to ditch the old
kettle, we reckon.
*Source: At Home With Water Report, The
Energy Savings Trust, 2013
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