Will my fridge/freezer not use the same amount of energy saved to cool again after an equivent?

Your fridge/freezer will need to use energy to re-cool itself but it will use cleaner energy during lower cost times.

Your appliance is turned off during an powerDOWN event because duringthose peak times electricity generation has the <ahref=”https://help.equiwatt.com/how-does-equiwatt-help-the-environment” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>highest carbon intensity</a>.

The reason for this is that in order to meet the demand on the gridduring peak times, energy companies switch on backup power plants. Theseare often powered by fossil fuels and are dirty and expensive to run.

By reducing electricity usage at these peak times, wecan reduce the dirty CO2 that is generated by these backup power plantsbeing switched on. The more households that take part, the bigger theimpact we have.

Turning off appliances at this time also saves costs for energycompanies and we pass your share of incentive payments from the energycompanies directly to you. Find out how here.