The Loop app tells me that my "phantom load" (ie background) use is in the top 20% of similar households (not sure whether that is 2 person or 4 bed) which left me a little crestfallen, as I thought I was doing quite well.
It's very clear that my background power use is 100w, and I realise that's now £300/year but for that I power:
Going from the cellar up:
2 x freezers
1 x Burglar alarm
1 x Cable modem
1 x Wifi hub
1 x aerial amp/distribution
2 x smart thermostats
1 x weather thingy
1 x Big TV on standby
1 x wired handsfree phone
1 x American style fridge freezer
1 x Ovens
1 x Microwave
4 x chargers
1 x Small TV on standby
1 x PVR on standby
2 x Smart speakers
1 x Smart screen thing
1 x radio alarm
3 x cordless phone and 1 base station
1 x CCTV system
Obviously the Fridge/freezers take the lion share of that, I thought I was doing rather well at 100wH
I dug into it a little more and saw that the app thinks my phantom usage is costing £650 a year, which doesn't jive in any way with these numbers. So, I read their methodology - "Loop calculates your phantom load by looking at periods of your day with very low usage and measuring how low the usage is. These low usage periods can be from quiet points during the day or overnight, depending on how you use energy at home." and the penny dropped. We put our dishwasher on overnight, and often the washing machine on the long eco cycle. Their algorithm must have taken those into account. I can go back to being reasonably sanguine about it. (The background TVs, the only items which could be powered down are low standby usage)
