With the energy price cap having risen by 54 per cent in April resulting in household energy bills rising up to £1,971 per year for default tariffs many households have been forced to look more closely at the appliances ,which may be unknowingly massively contributing to raising energy bills.

Aside from the more obvious large appliances like washing machines, tumble driers, fridges and ovens here are some of the other electrical products that you might want have and reduce usage of.

Games consoles and TVs

Did you know that games consoles are one of the costliest appliances to run in terms of their energy consumption? Playing for an hour every day will cost £20.55 per year – and just leaving the PlayStation plugged in and connected will add £7.85 annually, according to PlayStation’s figures.

That’s not including the cost of running your TV, either, which also adds up. The average 55-inch TV, for example, would cost £7.87 per year to run if watched for an hour a day, plus £3.43 just for being on standby.

Besides spending less time on them, your best bet is to disconnect your games consoles from the internet and switch them off at the mains when not in use.

Laptops

A laptop’s energy consumption depends on several factors, from what it’s being used for to the size of your screen and its brightness. If a laptop uses 32.5 watts of power on average, it’ll cost £17.75 per year to use it for full-time work (37.5 hours a week).

However, leaving it in sleep mode the rest of the time will also cost £3.37 per year, running at 2 watts.

Try not to keep it plugged in all the time.

Exercise equipment

Did you know a Peloton Bike will still use 1.9 watts of electricity, totalling £4.66 per year if left this way all the time. Even with the bike off but plugged in, you’ll spend almost a pound a year.

Treadmills are greedier still, using 600-700 watts of power on average — the equivalent to £33.215 a year if used for three and a half hours a week.

Blenders

A 1200-watt blender like a NutriBullet, for example, would cost £2.45 annually if used for a minute a day. To reduce costs try making the most you can in one go and storing it in the fridge.

Kettles and coffee machines

Kettles are massive energy consumers. A kettle operating at maximum power (usually around 3000 watts) costs 84p an hour to boil. This adds up to £25.47 a year, if used for five minutes a day.

Crucially, the more liquid a kettle has inside, the longer it will take to boil – and the more it will cost so keep this in mind.

Coffee machines are comparatively cheaper to run because they only boil the amount of water necessary. A Nespresso De’Longhi Expert Espresso Machine, for example, might consume an average of 1,260 watts for the 30 seconds needed to make a coffee, costing just £1.07 a year if you had one coffee a day.

To cut down overall energy costs from any of these appliance try and use them off peak when electricity is usually cheaper. Don’t connect to the internet unless it is vital to do so.

Buy a meter display to show you real-time use and cost — it focuses the mind when you see pounds per hour being used.

When buying new electronics be sure to look at the energy performance certificate (EPC), which shows how energy efficient they are.

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