Most offices are sat in the dark. Many assembly lines are at a standstill. And streets and railway stations are all but empty. Most people, at least in Christian countries, don’t have to work on Christmas Day and are able to spend the holidays at home with their loved ones.
This means that significantly less energy is consumed overall on public holidays, with electricity consumption clocking in at easily 30 percent below that of a normal working day.
But the flip side of people preferring to stay at home is that domestic energy demand increases enormously. During the cold winter months, houses and apartments are heated around the clock, Christmas dinners are roasted for hours on end and Christmas fairy lights give everything a festive glow. All things considered, we need a fair amount of energy to guarantee bit of Christmas cheer. In our (at times tongue in cheek) picture gallery, we have highlighted the biggest energy-guzzling culprits.
Photo credit: Yuganov Konstantin, shutterstock.com.
share article: