PC Power use on Stand-By

calibrax

andrewmoorcroft wrote:

My house has 2 work stations with 17" CRT screens on continually. The price in the table for this is £303.73 x 2 = £608ish. My electric bill is only £400 per year!!!

Well, perhaps your workstations are lower wattage than the ones at my work. And perhaps your electricity is cheaper. The table clearly states that the numbers are based on 575w and a price of 6.03p per kWh. If yours is different, then naturally your bill will be different. You'd also need to take into account that you may get much cheaper electricity at night... as far as I know offices generally don't.

andrewmoorcroft

calibrax wrote:

Well, perhaps your workstations are lower wattage than the ones at my work. And perhaps your electricity is cheaper. The table clearly states that the numbers are based on 575w and a price of 6.03p per kWh. If yours is different, then naturally your bill will be different. You'd also need to take into account that you may get much cheaper electricity at night... as far as I know offices generally don't.

Most people including myself are not on economy 7. If you think that i might get my electricity cheaper than 6p can you send me a link that sells for less than 6p as a standard home rate? I use british gas for my electric and they are charging me 10p. Further more, before i had computers i used to pay around £300 per year instead of £400 per year. Not all the increase is due to computer power usage because prices have gone up anyway.
In my previous post, all i wanted to ensure is that people understood that the decision should not be oversimplified by considering the table you have posted alone. The decision as to whether you should switch off is far more complicated. It sounds as though your man responsible for electric bills is only interested in keeping his on costs down and hasn't considered the total cost impact and the adverse effect of saving energy is not his problem!!!