If a wall switch is in the on position but there is no appliance pluged in will it run electricity?

I'm trying to lower my electric and I noticed that a wall switch in an unused room was in the down position. Will it still generate a use-age even though there is no appliance plugged into the corresponding outlet?|||No it will not "use" any electricity. If you're looking to reduce your wattage consumption, try wrapping your water heater and if it's electric, install a timer. All your "surge protectors" use electricity even if you have what ever you have plugged into them, turned off. How many clocks do you have in your house? How many "cordless phones? How many modems do you have? All these pieces of "utilization devices" one by one does amount to anything to be concerned with. However, when you put a "bunch" of them together, over a month's time, you would be surprised on just how much you're paying for "convenience". Anything that has a light on it is using electricity. How about your smoke detectors? Are they hard-wired or battery operated? Do you have outside lights that are on a timer? Timers use electricity. ( W/H timers use it ,too, not as much as a W/H) Just take some time and go sit in each and every room of your house 5-10 minutes. Look around it. You might be surprised on what is on in an "empty" room. Do it again at night. Just many little lights do you see?


Then conduct an experiment: When ever you leave your house and your going to be gone for more than an hour, turn the main breaker off. Does that set off your security system? There's another one that on all the time and you never think about it. All of this is just "Food for thought". Hope it helps.|||No. There must be a complete circuit, first.|||Down position is usually off and no it is not drawing any electricity until you turn it on.Same with anything you plug in there as long as its in the off position.|||no. the only way to reduce your electric bill is to reduce wattage use. your bill is paid by kilowatt hours and each electricity provider has a price to you of cents per kilowatt hours. for instance a 100 watt light globe is on for 10 hours. 10x 100 = 1000 watt hours. divide by 1000 to get kw hrs. and the result is 1 kwhr. if the electric company is charging 10 cents per kwh, you pay 10 cents to use the light for 10 hours.|||No, but as practice I shut off switches that are not being used. Use energy saving appliances where possible. Use compact florescent bulbs where possible.|||No it will not. The circuit is not complete until it runs through some sort of load (lamp, vacuum, etc..)|||nope only when there is something plugged into the wall that is also in the on position. Same is true when you unscrew a light bulb and try to turn that on.