The most important thing you do when optimising for low energy use is to measure how much energy your appliances actually use. For example, if you have a modern phone charger, you will find that it draws about 1W when switched on but not charging your phone: that costs (just) under £1/year.
The second most important thing is to pay attention to energy consumption when buying new appliances. If low energy use is important enough to you to justify obsessively switching things off at the wall, it's important enough to you to justify paying more up front to reduce your energy costs long term.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 10.1 ms ] threadThe second most important thing is to pay attention to energy consumption when buying new appliances. If low energy use is important enough to you to justify obsessively switching things off at the wall, it's important enough to you to justify paying more up front to reduce your energy costs long term.
(Even this ignores insulation.)