Misleading title. Power demand from US homes is rising. The rate at which it's rising is falling, and projected to continue falling.
Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing
an upward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since Thomas Edison
invented the modern light bulb.
Or, read further down for the actual numbers: From 1980 to 2000, residential power demand grew by about 2.5 percent
a year. From 2000 to 2010, the growth rate slowed to 2 percent. Over
the next 10 years, demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a
year, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit
group funded by the utility industry.edit: skimmed, and actually...
>[Utility] executives were particularly surprised by a dip during the first three months of this year, the most recent national quarterly numbers available. Adjusted for the effects of weather, residential power demand fell 1.3 percent nationwide, an unusually sharp drop.