As energy bills continue to soar, we’re all doing everything we can to try to keep our costs down.

The usual tricks of turning down the heating by a couple of degrees, switching to energy saving bulbs and turning lights off when not in use are all well known of course. But did you realise how much all your gadgets are using in standby mode?

Putting appliances on standby could be way more costly than you realise, as new data now shows.

Research from electricity and gas supplier Utilita has…