2005 Intrusive Residential Standby Survey Report

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Summary

This report was prepared in March 2006 by Energy Efficient Strategies, for the Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee (E3 Committee).

In 2000 Australia commenced research into the issue of standby power and began actively developing policies to deal with it. Subsequently Australia established standby goals for a range of appliances in their lowest standby mode in 2012, outlined in a strategy launched in 2002 (MCE 2002) and the associated standby product profiles.

The first study to establish the magnitude of standby power in the residential sector in Australia, which was commissioned by the National Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee (now simply known as the Equipment Energy Efficiency committee – E3), was an intrusive survey of 64 homes in late 2000 (EES and Energy Consult, 2001).

Since 2000, E3 has commissioned regular surveys to determine the standby attributes of a wide range of new appliances and products offered for sale in retail stores (Energy Consult, 2006). This has provided accurate standby trends for many new product types in Australia.

This report documents the findings of the second intrusive standby survey which was commissioned by E3 in 2005. This survey covered some 120 homes, which was a sample size almost double that of the 2000 survey. The larger sample enabled the households selected to be a more accurate representation of households expected across Australia, although inevitably, some bias in the sample will be present. This study estimates that standby power in a typical home was some 92.2W in 2005 (although this value is not directly comparable to the findings of the previous study).

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