I live my life on a master strip. When we leave a room, nearly everything goes off these days. On our electric bill is a graph that shows what our electric usage is compared to the same month in the previous year. So, after a year of this behavior, I am pleased to be seeing a significant drop in our monthly usage. It is said that as much as 75% of the average power used by an appliance is used while the unit is off. So, not only are we saving on power, we hopefully are prolonging the life of the appliances. While cruising the web, I was alerted to an interesting interactive application by Mashable.com. It is an application that tells you how much energy an assortment of appliances, light bulbs, etc use. You can see how many watts or even how much in dollars each uses-by state. It is a great application and will help show you how much money/energy you can save by switching to Energy Star. You can even turn all of them off and only turn on the ones that you are using and you can see how much energy your lifestyle takes. Check it out on the GE website.
Tags: appliances, Energy, Energy Star
