Standby Power Articles and Presentations

United States

Visit the Consumer Electronics home page for links to materials on national (US) energy use of consumer electronics and home office equipment. These reports investigate total electricity use, including but not limited to Standby.

LBNL Reports

LBNL 45967: Whole-House Measurements of Standby Power Consumption
International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Appliances, September, 2000
J.P. Ross and Alan Meier
LBNL 46019: Global Implications of Standby Power Use
ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August, 2000
Benoit Lebot, Alan Meier, and Alain Anglade
LBNL 42108: Reducing Leaking Electricity to 1 Watt
The 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 1998
Alan Meier, Wolfgang Huber and Karen Rosen
LBNL 40909: Results from the investigations on leaking electricity in the USA
The 1997 EU Conference on Home Appliances, November 1997
Alan Meier and Wolfgang Huber

LBNL Presentations

International Home Tours of Standby Power
Created especially for this website
Standby Power Use - Definitions and Terminology
Presented at the First Workshop on Reducing Standby Losses: Paris, France, January 1999
Alan Meier
Reducing Electricity to a Trickle
Presented at the ACEEE Summer Study: Pacific Grove, California, August 1998
Alan Meier
Results from the investigations on leaking electricity in the USA
Presented at the 1997 EU Conference on Home Appliances: Florence, Italy, November 1997
Alan Meier and Wolfgang Huber

Other Sources

Stand By Me (Efficiently)
Appliance Manufacturer Magazine, July 2000
Richard J. Babyak
Stand-By Power
Appliance Magazine, 15 June 2000
(Anonymous)
Squeeze Watts from your Imbedded Design
EDN Magazine, 4 February 1999
Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Drop by Drop, "Green" Design Saves Buckets of AC Power
EDN Magazine, 4 February 1999
Bill Schweber, Technical Editor
Reducing Leaking Electricity
Center for Building Science News, Winter 1998
Alan Meier and Karen Olson
Appliances that Leak Electricity and How to Plug Them
Berkeley Lab Research Review, Fall 1997
Allan Chen
Must We Pull the Plug?: New programs aim to cut the juice drawn by leaky appliances
Science News Online, October 1997
Janet Raloff
Leaky Electricity
Scientific American, August 1997
Kristin Leutwyler
You Won't Find These Leaks with a Blower Door: the Latest in "Leaking Electricity" in Homes
The 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 1996
Leo Rainer, Steve Greenberg, and Alan Meier

Standing Up to the Standby
Appliance Efficiency, January 1998
Hans-Paul Siderius (Netherlands)
Waste While Standing By (Germany)
German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) Press Release, September 1997

Energy Efficiency, Summer 1998 (in Japanese)
Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ)
Leaking Electricity Poster, Winter 1998 (in Japanese and English)
Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ)