You pay for this phantom load power use on your monthly bill, but get no benefit at all! Eliminating or reducing this standby power will cut your monthly bills without impacting your lifestyle. You can hardly find a better deal.
This "phantom load" or standby power happens when electronic devices uses electricity when they are turned off. Equipment that commonly uses photom power includes televisions, phone chargers, DVDs, VCRs, even coffeemakers with clocks and timers.
Put your electronic equipment together on a power strip, so you can turn everything off at once when you are through using it. Keep the television-top box and any modems on a separate circuit to avoid loss of connection. Some smart strips have the ability to keep some equipment on all the time while others are turned off when no one is in the room.
Buy low-standby products. Most Energy Star endorsed televisions and other electronic equipment use less power when on standby than does other equipment.
