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The Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has commissioned a study into the standby power use and lighting attributes of Australian households. This research is being conducted through a series of surveys of 150 homes in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Standby power is the electricity used by appliances when they are turned off or waiting to be activated by a remote control. Research conducted in 2005 showed that standby power accounted for more than 10% of Australia’s household electricity usage, costing Australians more than $950 million per annum. Further information is available concerning the 2005 study or about standby on this website.
It is estimated that lighting consumes up to 15% of the annual electricity budget of a household. There is only limited information available concerning lighting usage in typical Australian households. To date there has been no detailed or large scale study undertaken in Australia to record the number and types of lights in use in existing homes. To further help understand this, along with the physical audit, a paper based survey concerning householder lighting use behaviours is being undertaken, with the goal of extending this behaviour study to a much larger sample of households in the future.
Field research for this survey has now finished, the results will be released publicly in the near future. Thank you to study participants and those who have registered their interest.
This page last modified 17 March 2011
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