Boiling the kettle: carbon footprint

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🫖Carbon footprintBoiling the kettle

0.02kg CO₂e

one cup, ~0.1 kWh

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Boiling the kettle comes in at about 0.02 kg CO₂e (one cup, ~0.1 kWh).

Of the 13 home-energy actions Carbonle tracks, Boiling the kettle sits at #1 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

Most home energy is heat. One winter of heating dwarfs a year of small appliances.

About 0.02 kg CO₂e — one cup, ~0.1 kWh.

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Figures from DEFRA 2024: UK electricity 0.207 kg/kWh × 0.1 kWh, licensed OGL v3.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.