John the savings that can be made from efficiency improvements in various appliances are tiny relative to the overall consumption of a household or individual. Heating and aircon are the two biggies we can't get around. The control of temperature converts directly to energy, a certain amount of power is required to achieve a certain temperature change. The only efficiency that could make any difference to that is the efficiency in transmission, which could change by a few percent, so 100 Watt power requirement becomes 98 Watts, for example.
The savings made by converting energy to light more efficiently, in the case of bulbs, where there is also a requirement for heating, is lost by the heating demand ramping up to compensate for the heat energy lost by the savings in light power. In other words, when it is cold, we needed the heat from the old inefficient light bulbs, so it gets replaced by heating being turned up.
Heat pumps save some power but again it is nothing compared with adding power from an external source.
Efficiencies in all things including transmission has been made since the beginning of electricity production, around a hundred years of history there, but still we saw a definite trend, a well known hard relationship between energy requirements and population.
Efficiencies of various things could feasibly change the rate of increase of demand relative to rate of population increase, but something actually reversing it, this is something truly new, in a different ballpark completely from efficiency.
Mathematically, it fits that this indicates that significant new energy is being added from a different source.
The fact that it is actually driving down utilities energy demand shows that it is very significant, and we know still far more can be achieved, with hydrogen backup added to solar installations and the remainder of households included by scaling up, all can easily be accommodated, including all business.
The only thing standing in the way of this is that money as debt does not align with it, as explained, the issue of money is scaling down, but the economy is still expanding with population.
Nikola Tesla was right, free energy really does mean free money, and here we are finally seeing the proof, 120+ years later.
Now maybe you understand the reason for so much misinformation about energy, where that misinformation comes from, and how it is generated, and even by whom.
(Follow the money, to who defunded Tesla)
It wouldn't be a problem if it had not become existential, but now it has, we can ignore it no longer.