When you are asking about standby losses are you asking about the load when everything is dead? No refrigerator compressor operation, computer(s) off, unoccupied operation(no lights or operable devices). ...or are you including common base loads like the refrigerator running as part of the standby load? I have nearly no load at all on even the entire house when the fridge is off. Oddly enough in a non-climate control month, my refrigerator(non-energy star early-2k) becomes the largest item to my baseload with its 30kWh per month, that is after I gave it the efficiency pin-pop. I'm having a difficult time trying to justify replacing it with new one that is energy star rated mostly because I'm not sure how much less energy I can really expect it will save compared to the standard one that I destupified. Even wrapping it in XPS is a bit tough at this point, granted its over a third of my energy load but from 30kWh of use on. monthly basis, what is the expected gain?
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