Standby shutdown - sense or nonsense?

A TV that is plugged in standby mode continuously throughout the year uses about one euro worth of electricity. Topic closed.

When you sum up all devices, quite a bit remains. 1W continuous power consumption is 8.7kWh of electricity per year, at about 25C that is already 2 euros. Many devices, especially those with power supplies, easily reach 1W (especially older devices, or those that can be woken up via LAN often draw 5W or more). If you ignore this, it can add up to 50-100€ or more per year. And saving money/electricity starts in the details. If you neglect that, you then wonder why you yourself have used 6000kWh of electricity per year, while others get by with 3000kWh. The simplest test is to turn off all special consumers in summer (for example, wait until the fridge is not running, radio off, possibly ventilation system off, you probably don’t have the lights on anyway) and then write down the consumption after 10 minutes if you don’t have a digital meter that can also display about 35 watts or so. Then calculate how much that costs per year (see above).

Much more importantly, if you always "hard" disconnect the TV from the power using the remote control, the hardware might eventually burn out. A service technician told me that after the second TV was broken. Since then, it runs in standby - as mentioned, that costs < 2€/a

Aha. A device is supposed to be woken over LAN, therefore it needs more power and is switched off via a power strip? Sounds reasonable :)

If you have 6000 kWh on the meter instead of 3000, the peanuts from standby power won't help you.

By the way, 1W is the maximum limit for new devices and has been for several years. Worse is the 20-year-old Miele washing machine, but that’s quality and therefore has to be that way.

In this respect, I disagree that saving electricity does not start in detail. Anyone who spends dozens of euros on a power strip and smart plug is acting uneconomically. Besides, comfort is also worth something.
Look at what 30 seconds of blow-drying hair or vacuuming costs vs. the standby power that can be saved (no, I haven't calculated that now, but it should be about right)

If necessary, hardware will eventually fail anyway. I have had a TV that I always completely disconnected from the power for 6 years, and now it is in the basement and still works; for some people, devices break more easily that way too... it’s also about the total cost. In the living room, I have a switch that disconnects all multimedia from the power, except the receiver for recording/network availability, and that adds up to more than 2 euros per year.

Aha. A device is supposed to be woken up via LAN, therefore it needs more power and is switched off via a power strip? Sounds reasonable :)

You can't read properly. The device is not supposed to be woken up via LAN, but it could be, that's a big difference, because almost all newer devices with LAN could do that (even if one doesn't need it). Therefore, a higher standby consumption.

If you have 6000 kWh on the meter instead of 3000, peanuts from standby power won't help you.

That would possibly be 300-500 kWh less. Overall, with electricity it's all peanuts anyway. But even with a bucket full of peanuts, you can eat for quite a while.

1W is, by the way, the maximum limit for new devices and has been for several years. Worse is the 20-year-old Miele washing machine, but that's quality and has to be that way.

The 1W alone is not quite correct, the regulation is much more complicated and also contains exceptions (e.g. displaying operating status, other features than possible activation). Nevertheless, in many areas older devices are still in use.

On the other hand, other risks are not considered, e.g. (albeit rarely) fires or protection against lightning strikes (more frequent) when devices are disconnected from the power network. Even if fires are rare now, if 1 million households disconnect their devices from the network, that's a few fires less..

I can read, you just can't write. Read your paragraph above, everything is said in one breath. So you mean to save 300kwh of standby power? Sorry, you really have to calculate that because honestly, it's completely absurd. That is never going to be true.