So how do you reduce the amount of your electricity bills? Guest this Wednesday, February 16, 2022, in Touche pas à mon poste, on C8… Martial You, the economic journalist at RTL, reveals what are the simple gestures to make 7% savings. Leenkus gives you the details!
Who says better ?
Now, there are simple gestures in life that can reduce your electricity bills. The shower, the fridge, the television or the washing machine… It is therefore possible to save 7% if you adopt certain reflexes. Editor-in-chief of RTL’s Economy department, when he came to Touche pas à mon poste on C8, Wednesday February 16, 2022… Martial You actually drew up the list.
So, you might as well use all these little tricks! The goal ? Save money on your electricity bill and no longer end up in the red at the end of the month. Or go on a short family outing, have the luxury of treating yourself to a good restaurant or even having fun with a great vacation.
7% savings in electricity bills!
In fact, the shower is better than the bath. “You use four times less water,” the journalist first explained to Cyril Hanouna and his team of columnists. “Less water, therefore less bills…”
And it’s not the only equipment that consumes: “The fridge is linked to water. If you defrost your refrigerator regularly, you will save up to 30%. It’s a bit of individual discipline. » Thus, to wash the laundry, it is therefore preferable to select a program… at 30 degrees.
And if it is not recommended to turn off the heating… You can install a thermostat connected to a telephone: “If you lower the temperature in your home by one degree, you save 7% in electricity bills. »
Electricity: Up to 300 euros in annual savings
Small savings that we could all put aside and which represent a nice sum which it would be a shame to do without.
“If you have 150, 200, 300 euros saved at the end of the year, it is not negligible reduced to each month”, estimates the journalist.
What give ideas in a context of rising energy prices. In fact, since August 1, 2020, regulated electricity sales tariffs have actually increased by 1.55% on average.
Thus, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies… Over the year 2021, an increase in the price of energy has already been observed to the tune of 30 euros per month and per household compared to 2019.
The crazy budget of Guillaume Genton
Indeed, the subject of electricity and the economy in general has calmed the atmosphere on the set of TPMP. Especially after the electric debate on the paid autographs of two columnists.
If Guillaume Genton revealed that he spent more than 20,000 euros per month… This was therefore not the case for his colleague Benjamin Castaldi. “At the time, the bankers made you go down, down, down… And me, he made me go down very, very low,” he recalls.
“It contributed to my fall, they brought me down to 2.8 million”. Then added Benjamin Castaldi, who had to face financial problems. “2.8 million euros overdrawn? Baba then reacted, shocked. “They had taken my apartment as collateral and one day they told me that I had to repay,” explained the former TF1 host.
