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Official google.org Blog: How much power do you use in the middle of the night?

Written by Brandon Klein | Feb 27, 2011 8:41:00 AM

"Always On" power is the lowest level of sustained power used during a day-long period. On our energy-monitoring software tool, Google PowerMeter, this shows up as a dark green bar on your power usage graph. We've found that American users, on average, have 589 watts of electrical power being consumed all day long. What items are using all this electricity?