Electric utilities report that an increasingly significant amount of electricity is used by electronic devices and chargers that are not actively in use. Not every electric appliance, light, or device uses energy even when turned off, but an increasing number of these items do use energy even when turned off. If you want to know if an item is using electricity when it’s turned off, see if your local electric utility or library has a consumer power meter that you can borrow. When you plug the power meter into an outlet and then plug a device into the power meter, it will tell you how much power the device is using. Many devices and chargers are warm when they are using power, so feeling the device is an easy low-tech way to identify some of these items. Another thing to consider is that these unused items that are warm are adding heat to your home, which adds to the air conditioning load in the summer.
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