News JVTech Can you save electricity by charging your smartphone less?
At a time when in France we are talking about rational electricity consumption, small daily gestures count. Among them we find the one that consists of charging your smartphone on a daily basis. Does this affect the electricity bill?
Saving energy is one of the challenges of the winter that starts today. On the one hand, a sensible use of electrical resources limit the need for load shedding in France in 2023. On the other hand, it also has an economic interestBy using less, it is possible to reduce the amount of your electricity bill.
Anyone can do orders of magnitude optimization relative to the devices we use on a daily basis. The smartphone inevitably comes into play. But do you know how much it costs you every year to charge your mobile device? The answer may surprise you.
Charging a smartphone is inexpensive
An exact answer to this question is not possible.since everything depends on the storage capacity of the smartphone battery, the remaining percentage at the time of charging, the charging power and the electricity tariff at the time of performing this step.
However, according to the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (Ademe), The consumption associated with charging a smartphone would be between 2 and 7 kWh/year. The basic kilowatt-hour tariff currently applies $0.174 including VAT at EDFwe obtain an amount that would be between 0.35 dollars and 1.22 dollars per year. An estimate that appears to be similar to that of 2020 le website US Switch who gave the sum of £0.73 or 0.83 dollars at the current exchange rate and without taking inflation into account.
In total, Charging a smartphone is not expensivebut that doesn’t mean there aren’t potential energy wasters to avoid.
The right reflexes to intelligently charge your smartphone
Today, Most smartphones are equipped with an intelligent system that automatically regulates the battery charge : The myth that a terminal that stays connected all night reduces its autonomy really no longer has any reason to exist. In contrast, according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a smartphone that is 100% charged but still plugged in corresponds to an average output of 2.24 watts. When the charger is connected alone without being connected to a smartphone, it generates an average electrical power of 0.26 watts for free.
Admittedly, that’s only a few dollars more per year and therefore perhaps ridiculous. But we’re only talking about smartphones here. The latest Ademe report estimates that a French household wastes an average of $86 in electricity every year by leaving their appliances plugged in all the time. Aside from the amount of money that can be saved, this unnecessary consumption can drain overall reserves across France. So IMaybe it’s time to develop good reflexesand this can start by disconnecting the charger from the smartphone when not in use.
