Bye Bye Standby home products are endorsed by the Energy Saving Trust and
allow you to remotely cut power to electrical devices that are in standby mode.
Research from Oxford University Consulting shows that Bye Bye Standby would
save the average UK household £38 a year, which could represent as much as
£940million across the nation.

The Bye Bye Standby kit includes three smart sockets, which can control up to four
electrical devices each, and one remote control. Simply plug Bye Bye Standby into a
wall socket and then plug your appliance or extension lead into that. Each of your
devices can be switched off separately or as a group when you leave the room -
pressing the remote button again instantly switches them back on.
Research proves that people are not switching their appliances off at the mains. This
may be because they forget or cannot be bothered to go round and switch everything
off late at night or before they leave the house. Bye Bye Standby offers a convenient
solution to switch off up to 12 devices at the touch of a button. Bye Bye Standby will
also be helpful to older people or those with disabilities who cannot bend down to
reach sockets.


Key features of Bye Bye Standby:
• Simple plug-and-play installation - does not require additional wiring
• Smart Sockets can control up to four devices each
• Group on/off function
• Up to 30 metre remote control
• Compatible with any appliance up to 1,000watts (or 3,000W with a heavy-duty
Bye Bye Standby socket)
• Manual override - smart sockets can still be controlled manually


Appliances such as TVs, computers and hi-fi’s left on standby create more than four
million tonnes of extra carbon emissions in the UK alone (DEFRA), using the
equivalent of the annual output of 2½ 700megawatt power stations. A survey by the
Energy Saving Trust also found that the average household has up to 12 gadgets left
on standby or charging at any one time, which the Trust estimates respresents
10 per cent of their entire electricity bill.
With standby mode for some appliances still using as much as 25 per cent of the
energy they do when they are switched on, switching off makes sense.

What appliances are the worst standby offenders?*

• Dishwashers left on at the end of their cycle consume 70 per cent of the power
used when they are running.
• The average television is left on standby for up to 17.5 hours a day. Last year
Britain's 62 million television sets consumed about eight per cent of their energy
consumption in standby mode.
• Washing machines use just under 20 per cent of their normal electricity
requirement on standby.
• Tumble-dryers can use 38 per cent of power while waiting at the end of a cycle.
• If lights were turned off when not in use it would prevent 375,000 tons of CO2
emissions and save £55million in bills.
• There is little difference between the power requirement of digital receivers when
they are being used and on standby.
• Other appliances with high standby power are cordless telephones, radios and
stereos.

*Energy Saving Trust