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The Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) Committee is responsible for the development and ongoing operation of the Household Appliance Standby Power Data web page under the Asia Pacific Partnership (APP) Standby Power Project, which is part of the Building and Appliances Task Force (BATF).
The first edition of Load Down the standby power newsletter is now available. The newsletter will provide regular updates on the latest standby power research results and policy initiatives.
Program and Presentations from recent IEA/APP Standby Power Workshop held in Washington, USA, 21 - 22 October 2008 are now available.
Appliance Standby Power Consumption Store Survey 2007/2008 - Hungary
Appliance Standby Power Consumption Store Survey 2007/2008 - Czech Republic
Data collections have recently been completed in Hungary and the Czech Republic in Europe. The data is being analysed and should be available on the above interactive charts shortly. A number of other countries have indicate their interest in data collection as well. See details below if you wish to participate.
Presentations and proceedings from the International Conference on STANDBY POWER India Habitat Centre, New Delhi India 2nd - 3rd April, 2008 are now available from the IEA website. See also the IEA Website on Standby Power Use and the IEA "1-Watt Plan" for more information.
A new interactive website provides a visual representation of the standby data collected and analysed to date. The charts allow particular products to be compared and also allow comparison of selected countries. You can now link to the interactive website, which will be updated on a regular basis.
The Alignment of National Standby Power Approaches Project is being driven by the Australian Government’s Department of Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts with assistance from Korea, as part of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate Change (APP). The APP members include Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States of America. The purpose of this union is “to address the challenges of climate change, energy security and air pollution in a way that encourages economic development and reduces poverty”. The standby project is one of several being undertaken by the APP’s Building and Appliances Taskforce (BATF).
Further information on the APP Standby Power project can be found at the interactive website.
In 2008, a new IEA Implementing Agreement for a Co-operative Programme on Efficiency Electrical End-use Equipment (4E) was approved by the IEA Board. A group of 8 IEA member countries have joined forces in this implementing agreement to promote wider use of energy-efficient electrical equipment and household appliances, and another 4 countries are in the process of joining. Initially the 4E Implementing Agreement focuses on the areas with the best short-term potential for cutting down electricity consumption. The 4E Implementing agreement aims on sharing knowledge on a global scale and includes benchmarking and mapping energy saving potential in electrical appliances. The first projects focus on Standby Power, Efficient Motors and the growing energy consumption from Digital Set-top Boxes.
The new 4E Standby Annex is being led by Australia and the USA. The purpose of this Annex is to undertake co-ordinated activities in support of policies which target the reduction of Standby Power. It is structured into two streams: (1) Support for policies to tackle standby power and (2) Information collection and dissemination. The project will be conducted over 4 years. Some of the activities relating to the Standby Annex are workshops, research and dissemination of horizontal approaches to policy setting including options by modes, groups of appliances, functions or clusters of functions. It is also planned to assist the development standby power policies by maintaining information on national assessment studies, and providing guidance on how such studies should be undertaken. Further information on the Standby Annex can be obtained from www.iea-4e.org.
An international project to collect standby data to track global standby power trends has commenced. The aim of this project is collect data for a representative "basket of products" so that standby power levels can be measured and tracked for a range of countries around the world. A "basket" can be measured by any interested parties to compare trends in standby power within that country and across countries. Many of these products will be global commodities with small differences in standby power levels (some may be due to voltage and frequency effects). However, some products may be subject to regional differences as a result of local standby programs or other influences.
By pooling collected data, it will be possible to undertaken comparisons by country and region. Eventually, the data collected will also provide trends in standby power by product type over time so that the rate of improvement or deterioration can be quantified within and between markets as well as by product type and even brand.
More detail on the project is set out in the project discussion paper 
Draft Basket of Products Approach to tracking global standby power trends, including the products to cover and the general approach.
If you wish to participate in this project, please review the participants guide which sets out the steps you have to take, the support you will receive and the expectations with respect to sharing of data. If you wish to proceed, please contact us to express your interest and obtain the support materials. It will be important to keep participants informed of updates to the survey instrument to enable consistent data gathering, so a register of participants will be essential.
This web site contains historical data collected primarily through a series of store surveys commissioned by E3 over recent years. Eventually a range of international data collected under the "basket of products" project will also be posted in this database. The surveys have been conducted where household appliances are physically measured to determine their power consumption while in various low power modes such as "standby" &/or "off". These surveys involve plugging each target appliance into a portable power meter and measuring the applicable low power modes and recording the data. Other details, including brand, model and other characteristics of interest are recorded as well. Appliances in several stores have been surveyed for the past number of years, enabling a comprehensive data set to be compiled.
Access to the data is provided under a range of conditions. Acceptance of these conditions is a prerequisite for access to the data.
To gain access to the standby data, you must agree to provide your details to be a registered user. Registration is free and your user details will remain confidential. Once you apply, an email will be sent to the email address you supply confirming that your application for a user name and password has been submitted. Confirmation that the user name is active will be forwarded by email, usually within 3 working days.
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The current data set includes a total of 10 separate surveys conducted over the period 2001 to mid 2006. Data for 5,239 appliances is contained in the database. The data available for download was last updated in October 2006.
Manufacturers, governments or other organisations are invited to provide additional data for inclusion in the database. Please contact us to arrange of data to be included. Telephone +61 3 5623 2711 or contact the email address standbydata at energyrating.com.au.
A description of the modes and the modes collected for each product type are set out in the background.
The data set identifies the data source for each record, which is either store survey, or manufacturer supplied or other source.
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