lopomo n. lower power mode; a state in which an electric power supply uses less energy. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Galen in White River, Arizona, asks: Is there really a “neutral” accent, and if so, what is it? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Is There Really a Neutral Accent?” Hi there, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is Galen calling from...
In a lovely essay on the shared experience of theater audiences, Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times, memorably describes weeping in the dark with fellow audience members as offering “applause with mucus and salt.” This is part of...
electric power supplies—as the word suggests—supply energy and don’t use them. So it should rather be an electricity consumer, a load…
Electric power supplies do indeed use energy, whether or not they are currently supplying current (ha!) to an electrical or electronic device. That’s the whole point of the problem with them: even if they device they are attached to is turned off or on standby, they are unnecessarily consuming electricity.