Energy

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The average standby consumption for 2005 was found to be 92.2 Watts per household, or some 807 kWh per year. This equates to around 10.7% of Australia’s residential electricity consumption in 2005. This level of residential standby power consumption was estimated to cost Australian consumers approximately $950 million (at an average retail tariff of 15c/kWh) and will have resulted in emissions of nearly 6.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2005.
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The figure of 92.2 Watts per house could be seen as alarming. However, if all products were in fact plugged in and left in their highest recorded non operating mode, then this power consumption would be as high as 178.3 Watts per household. If all products were left plugged in and left in their lowest recorded non operating mode, then this power consumption would fall to 86.2 Watts per household. If all products found had a maximum non operating mode power consumption of 1 Watt or less, then the average power consumption would be 32.3 Watts per household.
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