BBC's "Vampire electronics on standy cost households £147 a year" story is mostly bullshit

“Vampire Electronics on Standy”. These British town names just get weirder and weirder.

In all seriousness, modern switch mode power supplies are very efficient when there’s no load and draw very little current. Sure it adds up when you have millions of devices on the grid at once, but it’s still a drop in the bucket.

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