> My house's baseline load is about 200w I don't know offhand what my baseline is. Still, this works out to 2.4 kWh baseline energy usage for you. > Each bed

> My house's baseline load is about 200w I don't know offhand what my baseline is. Still, this works out to 2.4 kWh baseline energy usage for you. > Each bedroom had 60w floodlights in 4 cans. Sure, we don't have them on all the time, but 4x3x60 = 720watts. That's half a hairdryer! Our living room+hallway was even worse. There were a bunch of MR16s at 50w. With 16 of them in the house, that's another 800w. When we're home in the evenings, the living room lights are on all the time, because it's in the main part of the house. That's a hell of a lot more lighting than I have. Our bedrooms have single-bulb overhead lights. The guest bedroom is rarely used, the master has two 25W lamps that are used infrequently, and the third is my lab with has light on maybe two hours a day (I prefer it off unless I am at my workbench). We have a bunch of cans, but except for one that is always dimmed they are usually off. The lights that are typically on when we are home are T8 fluorescent tubes in the kitchen. Anyway, going back to your example, the typical assumption for lighting is that a given fixture is used on average 3 hours per day. Using that assumption for all your lights gives 4.6 kWh for lighting, or only about twice your baseline load. Noticeable, but far from astounding.