Of course, the dirty little secret is, it’s not really about “saving the planet”, it’s about control. Concern about “the environment” is used as a club to work people over and guilt them into all sorts of absurdities. You’re naive to think “they” are going to stay out of your house. Your toilet, your showerhead, your lightbulbs are already subject to federal regs. Ditto for local code requirements, etc.
SUPPOSEDLY, the base load requirement for power generation has increased in heavily populated areas because of all the AC-DC wall wart adapters and other vampire loads present in the home, enough where bean counters suggest that reducing these loads would hel delay or prevent the necessity of building more power plants, along with the concurrent bond issues to pay for them.
Electricity, though, despite dewy eyed childrens public service admonitions to the contrary, cannot be “saved”; it is either consumed, or not. This is one of the reasons the “greens” War on Coal is so fantastically stupid. The base level requirement in any civilized society is enormous, and constant, it cannot now, and never will be met with alternatives like wind or solar.