Standby Power Consumption in Belgium

Author

Clement, Kristien ; Pardon, Ief ; Driesen, Johan

Author_Institution

Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Leuven

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Electric appliances consume electricity when they are in standby mode and sometimes even in off-mode. These "losses" of each appliance individually are not large but the sum over all appliances is no longer negligible. The standby losses of ten households are investigated. The standby power varies from 7 to 134 W and has an average of 40 W. The standby consumption is on average 274 kWh/year, representing 8% of the yearly consumption of an average household. With the 1-Watt plan, it is possible to reduce the standby losses to a significantly lower level. Other possibilities to reduce the standby power are standards and technology improvement.

Keywords

domestic appliances; losses; power consumption; power system economics; Belgium; electric appliances; standby losses; standby power consumption; Clocks; Current measurement; Energy consumption; Europe; Home appliances; Loss measurement; Power measurement; TV; Time measurement; 1-Watt plan; reducing standby power; standby consumption; standby power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation, 2007. EPQU 2007. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-84-690-9441-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-84-690-9441-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPQU.2007.4424225

Filename

4424225