More appliances, less energy

摘要

FROM BLARING ALARM CLOCKS TO LATE-NIGHT NETFLIX BINGES, THE average American uses 12 kilowatt-hours of energy around the house every day. That's a lot of wattage-enough to drive a Nissan Leaf across Rhode Island-but it's also our lowest personal-consumption rate since the start of the century. Although we're more addicted to gadgets than ever, these appliances are growing so efficient that per capita power hunger dropped 7 percent between 2010 and 2016, in spite of our growing doodad collections.