Vampire appliances: the electronics sucking your wallet dry

Appliances left on standby account for almost a quarter of Britain's electricity use. Turns out your gran was right to go around switching things off at the wall

Name: Vampire appliances.

Age: There are old ones, and less old ones.

This article was amended on 24 March 2022 as we had used an incorrect format for measuring the power used by a Sky box. We used W/hour when W (for watts) would have sufficed.