Martin Brown wrote:

On 14/10/2014 01:04, Andy Burns wrote:

News wrote:

our electricity usage has always seemed incredibly high

Did you find any hogs?

Many digital TVs have a default setting that powers the TDTV tuner when
in standby and consumes 20-30W continuously doing this.

I'd accept that some do, but not necessarily many, both mine (one a few
months old, the other seven years old) are 1W when on standby.

In think in the O/P's case, he'd need to find fifty TVs eating 30W to
explain his consumption ...