Energy Matters in the last issue of GEOGRAPHY REVIEW looked at the factors inf luencing the cost of heating your home. But heating is only one of the energy uses in the home, alongside hot water, lights, appliances and cooking. In most homes, these are fuelled by a mixture of gas or electricity, so that the majority of households receive two sets of bills (both measured in kWh).
To break these bills down and see how the energy has been used is difficult. Think about the problems of establishing the amount of electricity that has gone separately into the television, the table lamp and the computer, when they are all plugged into the same socket.
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