Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Gadgets Account for 15% of Home Energy Use

According to the International Energy Agency, electronic devices currently account for 15 percent of household electricity consumption.

Energy consumed by information and communications technologies as well as consumer electronics will double by 2022 and triple by 2030 to 1 700 Terawatt hours, equal to entire total residential electricity consumption of the United States and Japan in 2009, the IEA predicts.

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