A new consumer behaviour change campaign is calling on 13 million UK households, including 1.2 million in Scotland, not to heat their homes any higher than 21 degrees this winter and consider other ways to get cosy instead.
The ‘Wear Warm’ campaign launched on November 1 after research undertaken by Utilita Energy - the only energy company created to help households use less energy - revealed that almost half of the nation’s homes are heated to a tropical 24 degrees centigrade for half the year - the same temperature as Barbados.
Utilita supplies gas and electricity to 10,000 households in Scotland. Based on 48 per cent of the UK’s homes being heated to three degrees higher than the recommended healthy heat (18-21 degrees), an additional
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