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Groton Local Energy Seminar Series # 4:: Reducing Power Consumption of Lights, Electronics, & Household Appliances
Groton Local Energy Seminar Series # 4:: Reducing Power Consumption of Lights, Electronics, & Household Appliances
12-Dec-07
Lawrence Academy
Leo Laverdure
Energy Use for Single-Family Homes Energy Use for Multi-Family Homes
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Groton Electricity Consumption
Groton Electric Residential Customers
Average Min & Max Months Usage
1183 160
1200 $142.47
140
1000
120
800
674 100
600 Min 80 Min
$64.64
Max 60 Max
400
40
200
20
0 0
KWH $
http://standby.lbl.gov/Data/SummaryChart.html
Standby Power (watts) (continued):
Min, Average, Max
http://standby.lbl.gov/Data/SummaryChart.html
Some Global & National Estimates
for Phantom Loads (1999)
OECD United States Japan France
Fraction of
residential electricity 5-10% 5% 12% 7%
use (%)
50- 50
Watts per home 60 38
100 (=438 KWH/yr)
45
National (TWh/year)
(=$4.5B)
http://standby.lbl.gov/DATA/International.html
EnergyStar.gov
Home Electronics
• Consumer electronics > 25% of
household electricity use.
Save Energy, Save Money
• These products use energy • An adapter that has earned the
when they're off for features like ENERGY STAR meets strict
clock displays and remote energy-efficiency guidelines
controls. ENERGY STAR • Average 30% more efficient
products use as much as 60% than conventional models.
less energy for these functions,
• Often lighter and smaller in
while providing the same
performance at the same price size
as less-efficient models.
PC Power Consumption Examples
Laptop Deskside, w/ 17” CRT
• Operating: 22-35W • Operating: 150W
• Screen off: 14W • Screen off: 80W
• Sleeping: < 1W • Sleeping: 7W
• Hibernating/turned off: • Hibernating/turned off:
< 0.5W < 1W
• Unplugged: 0W • Unplugged: 0W
• Potential savings using • Potential savings using
after-hours power mgt: after-hours power mgt:
~$15/yr ~$150/yr
Set power
management
options on
Windows/XP using:
- Start /
- Control Panel /
- Performance and
Maintenance /
- Power Options
Household Appliances
Save Energy, Save Money
• Two price tags for an appliance:
1. what you pay to take it home
2. what you pay for the energy and water it uses.
ENERGY STAR appliances use 10–50% less energy and water.
The money saved on utility bills can more than make up for any
extra cost of a more efficient ENERGY STAR model.
Current EnergyStar
(’93) model: model:
$108/yr. $56/yr.
http://energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=refrig.calculator
Other EnergyStar Appliances
Typical Typical
Appliance EnergyStar Annual Notes
Efficiency Savings
Dehumidifier 10 – 20% $30 Humidistat
Full loads,
Dishwasher > 40% $15
air dry
Freezer > 10% $10 Chest best
Prefer natural
Room A/C > 10% $5
ventilation, fans
Room Typically 800
35% $16
Air Cleaner KWH/yr
Typical Wattages of Various Appliances
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/appliances/index.cfm/mytopic=10040
Infotainment:
Appliances:
Decreasing electricity consumption
is possible
Some energy-saving holiday gifts
• CFL 4-pack, < $10, many sources
• Power strip, $5, may sources
• Timer/outlet, $15, many sources
• The Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook, $10.36,
amazon.com
• Clothes drying rack, $10-$80+, many sources
http://www.abundantearth.com/store/WoodenDryingRacks.html
• Kill-a-watt: pluggable electricity monitor, $25, killawatt.com
• TED: The Energy Detective, whole-house energy monitor
& display, $140, theenergydetective.com
• Durotherm Thermal Cookware, $169,
http://www.kuhnrikon.com/products/duro/group.php3?id=3
• Energy-efficient refrigerator, $250-$2500+, many sources
• Energy audit, $0 - $$$, a few sources, including GELD
• “The Story of Stuff” DVD, $10, storyofstuff.com
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which
threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions, consists of
four colliding dilemmas, all arising from our dependence on depleting fossil fuels:
1. The direct impacts on agriculture of higher oil prices: increased costs for
agricultural fuels & chemicals, and the transport of farm inputs and outputs.
2. An indirect consequence of high oil prices - the increased demand for biofuels,
switching farmland from food production to fuel production.
3. The impacts of climate change and extreme weather caused by fuel-based
greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change – the greatest environmental crisis
of our time – is enormously complicated by fossil fuel depletion.
4. The degradation or loss of basic natural resources (principally, topsoil and fresh
water) as a result of unsustainable rates and methods of production enabled by
decades of cheap energy.
Each of these problems is developing at a different pace regionally, exacerbated by
the continually expanding size of the human population. The resulting overall food
crisis is likely to be profound and unprecedented in scope.
The primary solution to the overall crisis of the world food system must be a planned
rapid reduction in the use of fossil fuels in the growing and delivery of food. The
organic movement is uniquely positioned to guide this inevitable transition of the
world's food systems.