5 watts in standby actually equates to 43.8 kWh per annum. Not too startling in itself, however what does that cost us? In South Africa, at current average rates you will pay around R22 per annum per machine for that inefficiency. Multiply this by 1000’s and the numbers start to add up. Now add the impending increases and you are looking at closer to R30 per machine.

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