AGA Cookers criticised for energy costs

AGAs have recently been criticised for their high energy consumption and inefficiency.^[4] A small, two-oven AGA running on gas will use approximately 425 kWh per week (22,100 kWh per year; perhaps half that if switched off during the summer months). The average standard gas oven and hob uses 580 kWh during a year, only 2.62% of the AGA's consumption.^[5]

AGA's own figures for expected energy consumption for their two-oven AGA support this criticism,^[6] suggesting a weekly consumption of 40 litres of kerosene or diesel, 60 litres of propane gas, 425 kWh of natural gas or 220 kWh for theelectric models. This would indicate that the smallest two-oven gas AGA providing simple cooking functions (i.e. no water heating or central heating) consumes almost as much gas in a week as a standard gas oven/hob does in nine months.

AGA has provided an analysis of their own, which claims that they have taken steps to reduce energy consumption.^[7]

Source: Wlkipeda.

When heating is paid for by expenses it is not a worry. Pictured here alongside their Aga cooker is Peter Hain MP with his wife Elizabeth at their modern Neath Valley home.