My Top TV Energy Saving Tips To Help Slash Your Bills

Slash your energy bills and cut carbon emissions with my top TV energy saving tips that won’t impact on the viewing quality of your favourite programmes.

I’m passionate about saving energy. It can be one of the easiest and most impactful things we can do as individuals to tackle climate change. This is because a quarter of the carbon emissions from our homes come from electricity and gas usage. Cut down our usage, and we cut down our emissions, helping to combat climate change.

What’s more, cutting our energy usage doesn’t just help the environment. Saving energy means more money in our pockets and less money in the pockets of energy companies. With energy bills rising again in 2025 after years of rises, and household finances remaining precarious for many, it’s also more important than ever to save money where we can.

Thankfully, it’s not hard to save energy. I’ve been sharing some easy energy-saving tips for some time now, so thought I’d share some easy tips to lower your television’s power consumption. You can potentially save at least £100 a year, which is not to be sniffed at!

My Top TV Energy Saving Tips

Ready to get saving? Here are all my top tips:

Turn The Brightness Down On Your Television Set

The average household can save as much as £8 a month – £96 a year – just by turning the brightness down on their TV.

I’m not suggesting turning it down so you can’t see the screen. You just need to make some minor adjustments that won’t impact the quality of your favourite wildlife documentary or soap – your call!

This is because when TV sets are packaged for sale or display, they are set at much higher levels of brightness and contrast than really necessary.

Manufacturers do this bit of trickery so the screens look all bright and jazzy in illuminated shop displays. However, the default brightness settings are too bright for most living rooms. Increased brightness and contrast on your TV means increased power consumption.

Just by turning the brightness and contrast on your TV set downwards, you’ll probably get a better picture in your home. This benefits your eyes, and it also saves you a nice little sum of money, as well as saving a great deal of energy.

Whilst you click around in the brightness settings of your TV, you might find your TV has an eco mode. That will automatically set the brightness to a good balance between viewability and power consumption.

Find your remote, and get adjusting those brightness settings for a better TV-watching experience all around!

Avoid Leaving Your TV on Standby

If your TV displays a red light when it’s switched off, then it’s still using energy. It’s best to get into the habit of turning of the TV at the mains when you’re not watching it, to avoid it draining what’s quite dramatically known as vampire energy. It will save you a little bit of money on your bills – potentially around £16 a year.

Turn Off The Screen When Listening To Music

If you listen to Spotify, stream music or the radio on your TV then you could be using more energy than you need to. Some TV’s have a clever setting that allows you to turn the picture off, but still hear the sound. Check the manual to see if yours has this feature.

If your TV doesn’t have this setting, the most energy efficient thing to do is to lower the brightness on your TV as much as you can when you’re not using the screen. You’ll enjoy some savings on your bills, without disrupting your favourite tunes.