Do you have a fridge you can turn off?
Many companies have more than one refrigerator in their business. If you have two:
- Check if the contents of both fridges could fit into a single fridge. If it can, switch one of them off. That saves money 24 hours a day.
- According to Origin Energy, turning off an unused 400 litre fridge you can save up to $220 a year (so only turn on a ‘beer’ fridge when you have to).[1]
- Switching off a fridge also means one less item that you need to buy and replace at the end of its working life.
Bottle King, VIC
Bottle King of Pascoe Vale installed simple off-the-shelf plug-in timers to seven of their fridges. The timers were set to turn off at 11.15pm, and back on at 8.30am.
Each timer cost less than $20 per fridge. With this simple measure they are saving $950 on energy per year – and their payback period was less than 2 months.[2]
- 1. Based on figures at EnergyCut.info/second-fridge
- 2. EnergyCut.info/bottle-king (“based on an average of $135 per year for a single glass door fridge” -MGA).