Cheap Electric Shower UK

Electric showers are one of the biggest energy consumption appliances in your house, but with a simple change you can save money on your electric shower energy bills and make running an electric shower cheap.

Almost all the electric showers on the market in the UK have 2 power settings, often just marked one and two. Rarely is a shower marked with the true meaning of these settings - the power setting.

On an average 10KW electric shower, the high, or two, setting is burning 10kW of electricity every hour, or 10kWHours. To put this in real terms, if electricity costs 15p per kWH, running an electric shower on full for an hour costs £1.50. In a house with 3 or 4 people using the shower, £1.50 per day is not unfeasible.

To save money with your electric shower, simply reduce the power setting to setting one, or low as it is sometimes marked. This simply runs the shower elements at 5kW rather than 10kW and you can still get the same temperature out of your shower as on the high setting in all but the coldest weather. The flow rate will be slightly less, but think of all those pennies you will be saving and you'll forget about that.

By implementing this simple change you could be saving approx 75p per day in a house using the shower for an hour per day. That equates to over £22 per month or around £270 per year!