Admitting to wasting lots of energy and only my own greed has driven me to make changes :-(

Ectophile

SAC2334 said:

Alnat1 said:

The Tapo P110 energy monitor is everyone's best friend on the forum at the moment. Costs about £10. You plug it into the wall then plug whatever appliance you want to check into it.

You can check how much things use in standby pretty quickly, just monitor for a few minutes. 

Dishwashers/washers/tumble dryers can be checked during use and when you thought they were off (ours pulled a few watts 24/7, luckily we have wall switches to turn them off)

Fridges/freezers can be monitored for a few days as they turn on and off. We found our 14 year old American fridge freezer was using almost 900kWh a year, almost a third of our annual electricity!! We have now replaced it with a very efficient upright FF that should use 214kWh/yr. Monitoring over summer showed it was using even less than that.

Do you know if the Tapo P110 will actually register very low wattages .Standby s on TV s and set top boxes are usually very low nowadays .I have a 10 year old plasma as a second TV and would like to know its true standby usage and the Youview box too. 

If the wattage is so low you can't measure it, then it's not worth worrying about.