Preventing Phantom Power from Taking a Bite out of Your Budget This National Clean Energy Month
PG&E issued a National Clean Energy Month consumer-education release encouraging customers to cut standby 'vampire' power draw from idle electronics, citing LBNL data that such loads can reach 10% of a home electricity bill. The utility promoted free tools including its Tool Lending Library, Home Energy Checkup, the HomeIntel assessment program, and income-qualified Energy Savings Assistance and GoGreen Financing programs.
Key figures
- Homeintel avg savings
- $200 annually
- Standby power share of bill
- up to 10%
- Avg household idle power cost
- $100 per year
- Idle loads global carbon share
- about 1%
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