Standby power requirements of household appliances in Canada

摘要: Abstract Standby electricity use, or leaking electricity, is the electrical energy consumed by appliances when they are turned off, not in use. This used internal external transformers, features such as remote control, memory, clock display, and instant-on, represents a significant component of residential consumption. In this paper, results from detailed field measurements standby power requirements new stock existing minor miscellaneous household presented. Measurements were made four electronic appliance retailers 75 houses Halifax, Canada, cover wide range appliances. Using findings these self-reported usage, annual average consumption per sample was estimated to be 427 kWh, which equivalent constant load 49 W. could reduced 59% (to 177 kWh) if requirement all with over 1 W 1 W. The 427 kWh year likely slightly lower than actual, since major hard-wired included analysis. Future work on measurement needed further understand