Surprisingly, home electronics use very little electricity. The biggest energy users in the home are appliances that heat, cool, or pump.
The biggest electricity users in the home are air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, electric space heaters, and swimming pool pumps:
Electric Usage Chart | Efficiency Vermont . A laptop computer uses perhaps $1 of electricity per month.
The newer TVs use so little electricity. You can get 64 inch TVs that only use $16 of electricity
per year to operate:
ENERGY STAR Most Efficient 2020 — Televisions . A huge improvement over the old CRT TV sets of 30 years ago.
The LED light bulbs also use very little electricity. A 16 watt LED bulb has the same brightness as the old 100 watt incandescent light bulbs:
These LED bulbs offer 100 watts worth of light: Which is best? . If you use that 16 watt LED bulb for 5 hours a day, it will only cost about 2 cents' worth of electricity per day.
If you live in California, almost half of your electricity comes from hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, and wind energy:
California - State Energy Profile Overview - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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