Australian households could cut almost 12 percent from their energy bills by turning domestic appliances off at the wall, according to a report on our use of standby power. Money isn't all You're Saving, a 10-year strategy to reduce the use of standby power, has been released following a meeting of the nation's energy ministers at the Ministerial Council of Energy in Brisbane. The Federal Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, said that stand-by power consumption accounted for up to 11.6 percent of the nation's household electricity usage, costing more than 500 million dollars a year and generating about five million tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
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