Nowhere in the US last year. It actually leaked out of appliances in standby and flashing digital clocks.
Well, what can you say? 5% of electricity use goes right to power leaks in plugged in equipment. Devices just sap up energy like a whart hog in a chicken roost… a Titanic analogy might have been better.
Thank you to the ACEE for reminding us of what we lost and thereby found:
Leaking electricity is responsible for an estimated 45 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity consumed by U.S. households each year—nearly 5 percent of total residential electricity use—and costs U.S. consumers more than $3.5 billion annually.
I have just learned of this when reading suggestions to do my bit to stop global warming. This really is appalling! I read that in Europe they are considering making manufacturers to make appliances to use a maximum of 1 watt when off. I think this should be a requirement everywhere.
Do you know if plugging appliances into a powerstrip or similar so I can turn them off instead of crawling behind the tv to unplug it would be enough to eliminate the vamping?