A major energy provider is offering eight hours of free electricity on Christmas day. EDF Energy has said that customers who sign up for their Sunday Saver initiative will be entitled to the offer.
further to the eight hours on Christmas Day customers on the Sunday Saver scheme can earn up to 16 hours of free electricity across four Sundays in December and January – December 14, 21 and 28 and January 4 – by shifting their weekday usage away from the peak hours of 4pm-7pm.
You can still sign up for the Sunday Saver scheme for the next four days until 11.59pm on November 30. Anyone who misses this deadline for the December challenge, can still gain access to free power on Christmas Day by signing up before 11.59pm on December 24.
Households use lots of electricity on Christmas Day. New research, conducted by EDF reveals that households celebrating Christmas are estimated to use more than 65 kWh of electricity on Christmas Day alone. This is seven times the usual daily consumption of 8–10 kWh – enough to watch Home Alone back-to-back 183 times.
Cooking Christmas dinner is one of the most electricity-intensive activities, with the nation roasting over 14 million turkeys and 114 million pigs in blankets. The energy cost of the average Chirstmas Dinner is between £7 and £10 Energy Advice Helpline said.
Brits are also expected to brew a 332 million cups of tea and coffee on the big day, enough to fill 32 Olympic-size swimming pools.
With this Sunday Saver scheme you must be an EDF customer, over 18 in England, Scotland or Wales and have a smart meter. Once you sign up, EDF will set a baseline energy by calculating the average amount of energy you use from Monday to Friday between 4pm and 7pm.
If you use less than this baseline during week days at the same time, you get a certain amount of hours free the following Sunday. Reducing your energy consumption by 5% will get four hours for free. 20% will get you eight free hours, while a 35% reduction will earn 12 hours. If you manage to reduce your energy consumption by half you’ll get a huge 16 free hours.
If you do this weekly, and have the eight hours on Christmas free, you’ll rack up 72 hours of free electricity.
