How many times have you left the room for long periods leaving the television switched on. Many of us have more than one television and having them all on at once for long periods with no one watching can waste an awful lot of electricity and money.
Most people will probably have at least one television,
DVD, video, Hi Fi, radio, etc. If you leave them all on permanent standby
then you are wasting a lot of power as I found out when I measured
the standby consumption of all our audio visual equipment. You
can see some of the staggering results I obtained if you have
a look at the 2004 and 2006 Survey
results.
Simply switching off at the wall can save a lot of money. The
highlight was a Hi Fi only a few years old by a well known manufacturer
which had a standby power of nearly 20W.
Perhaps the biggest energy consumer off all these devices is the television, for more information on this subject check out the television page.
