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  "checked": "2026-09-22",
  "edition": "Correction V2",
  "scope": "All numerical series and major public claims; official source titles retained.",
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      "id": "match-croatia",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Croatia match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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      "id": "match-mexico",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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      "id": "match-cameroon",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Cameroon match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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      "id": "match-chile",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
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      "id": "match-colombia",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Colombia match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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      "id": "match-germany",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Germany match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
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          "source": "https://www.plus.fifa.com/en/content/brazil-v-germany-semi-finals-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil-highlights/0136e3a7-26c5-4ac1-8eef-d4fae0ddc840"
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    {
      "id": "match-netherlands",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Netherlands match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
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          "end": 19,
          "city": "Brasília",
          "reference": "2014-06-07",
          "stage": "Third-place match",
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          "source": "https://www.plus.fifa.com/en/content/brazil-v-netherlands-play-off-for-third-place-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil-highlights/113241b6-e554-493c-8228-682f03e6918f"
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    {
      "id": "match-peru2019",
      "claim": "Hourly load on Brazil–Peru match day and a specified reference day.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
          "url": "https://dados.ons.org.br/dataset/curva-carga",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
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      "indicator": "Electricity load",
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      "status": "Observed inputs; project aggregation and comparison",
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          "event": "copa2019",
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          "end": 19,
          "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
          "reference": "2019-06-30",
          "stage": "Final",
          "stagePt": "Final",
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      "id": "mexico-recovery",
      "claim": "17 June 2014: hourly national load rises from about 53.00 GW at 17:00 to 64.84 GW at 18:00.",
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          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
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          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
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    {
      "id": "rio-monthly",
      "claim": "Mean system load for July, August and September 2016.",
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        {
          "id": "ons",
          "title": "Curva de Carga Horária",
          "url": "https://dados.ons.org.br/dataset/curva-carga",
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          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
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      "geography": "Brazil SIN and four subsystems; not Rio municipality",
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      "unit": "MW mean; UI converts to GW",
      "status": "Observed inputs; arithmetic mean of all hours",
      "limitations": "Includes days outside the Games (5–21 August). Weather, season and economic activity are uncontrolled; no Olympic effect identified.",
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        {
          "month": "August",
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          "SE": 34310.109,
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        {
          "month": "September",
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          "NE": 9897.171,
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          "SE": 34770.657,
          "SIN": 60201.419
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      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "annual-consumption",
      "claim": "Annual grid electricity consumption, including a 0.8919% decrease in 2016 relative to 2015.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "epe",
          "title": "Anuário Estatístico de Energia Elétrica 2017",
          "url": "https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-160/topico-168/Anuario2017vf.pdf",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "EPE · Empresa de Pesquisa Energética",
          "year": "2017"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil",
      "time_scale": "Calendar years 2012–2016; EPE 2017 publication snapshot",
      "indicator": "Grid electricity consumption",
      "unit": "TWh/year; percent change",
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      "limitations": "Grid consumption has a narrower accounting boundary than total final electricity consumption; annual changes are not causal event estimates. Table 3.1.",
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        {
          "year": "2013",
          "value": 463.134
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        {
          "year": "2014",
          "value": 474.823
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        {
          "year": "2015",
          "value": 464.976
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        {
          "year": "2016",
          "value": 460.829
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      ]
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    {
      "id": "sector-consumption",
      "claim": "Industry, homes, commerce and remaining sectors account for 460.829 TWh in 2016.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "epe",
          "title": "Anuário Estatístico de Energia Elétrica 2017",
          "url": "https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-160/topico-168/Anuario2017vf.pdf",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "EPE · Empresa de Pesquisa Energética",
          "year": "2017"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil",
      "time_scale": "Calendar year 2016",
      "indicator": "Grid electricity consumption by sector",
      "unit": "TWh/year; share of grid total (%)",
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          "name": "Commerce",
          "namePt": "Comércio",
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        {
          "name": "Other",
          "namePt": "Outros",
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    },
    {
      "id": "generation",
      "claim": "Domestic electricity generation was 578.898 TWh in 2016.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "epe",
          "title": "Anuário Estatístico de Energia Elétrica 2017",
          "url": "https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-160/topico-168/Anuario2017vf.pdf",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "EPE · Empresa de Pesquisa Energética",
          "year": "2017"
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      ],
      "geography": "Brazil",
      "time_scale": "Calendar year 2016",
      "indicator": "Domestic electricity generation",
      "unit": "TWh/year",
      "status": "Observed historical statistics",
      "limitations": "Table 2.3. Generation and final/grid consumption are different accounting aggregates; subtraction is not an estimate of waste.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "final-consumption",
      "claim": "Total final electricity consumption was 520.0 TWh in 2016.",
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        {
          "id": "ben",
          "title": "Balanço Energético Nacional 2017 — Relatório Síntese, ano-base 2016",
          "url": "https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-46/topico-81/S%C3%ADntese%20do%20Relat%C3%B3rio%20Final_2017_Web.pdf",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "EPE · Empresa de Pesquisa Energética",
          "year": "2017"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil: interconnected system, isolated systems and self-production",
      "time_scale": "Calendar year 2016; BEN 2017 summary p. 30",
      "indicator": "Total final electricity consumption",
      "unit": "TWh/year",
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        "TWh": 520
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    },
    {
      "id": "renewable-shares",
      "claim": "Renewables supplied 81.7% of the electricity mix and 43.5% of the total energy mix in 2016.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "ben",
          "title": "Balanço Energético Nacional 2017 — Relatório Síntese, ano-base 2016",
          "url": "https://www.epe.gov.br/sites-pt/publicacoes-dados-abertos/publicacoes/PublicacoesArquivos/publicacao-46/topico-81/S%C3%ADntese%20do%20Relat%C3%B3rio%20Final_2017_Web.pdf",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "EPE · Empresa de Pesquisa Energética",
          "year": "2017"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil",
      "time_scale": "Calendar year 2016; BEN 2017 historical snapshot",
      "indicator": "Renewable share of electricity / total energy supply",
      "unit": "% of distinct supply totals",
      "status": "Observed historical accounting",
      "limitations": "Different denominators; includes imports. Total energy includes transport fuels, industrial heat, cooking and other uses. These are not present-day shares.",
      "values": {
        "electricity_percent": 81.7,
        "total_energy_percent": 43.5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "rio-city-demand",
      "claim": "EIA reported higher electricity demand in Rio during the Games, associated with visitors, athletes and staff.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "eia",
          "title": "Hydroelectric plants account for more than 70% of Brazil’s electric generation",
          "url": "https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27472",
          "source_type": "International energy sources",
          "author": "Slade Johnson & Kirstin Berndt · U.S. Energy Information Administration",
          "year": "11/08/2016"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Rio de Janeiro municipality",
      "time_scale": "Games period; report published 2016-08-11",
      "indicator": "Electricity demand",
      "unit": "Qualitative; magnitude not supplied",
      "status": "Contemporaneous reported observation",
      "limitations": "No numerical increase, sector contributions or causal counterfactual. Article graph corrected 2017-03-16. Not a national annual consumption result."
    },
    {
      "id": "olympic-substation",
      "claim": "Olympic substation rated 120 MVA: three 40 MVA transformers, 138 kV to 13.8 kV; Media Complex and redundant supply preparation.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "mme",
          "title": "Comitiva do MME vistoria instalações olímpicas",
          "url": "https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/comitiva-do-mme-vistoria-instalacoes-olimpicas",
          "source_type": "Official Brazilian data",
          "author": "MME · Ministério de Minas e Energia",
          "year": "28/03/2016"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Olympic Park / Media Complex, Rio de Janeiro",
      "time_scale": "Pre-event report: 2016-03-28, updated 2016-03-31",
      "indicator": "Transformer apparent-power rating and voltage",
      "unit": "MVA; kV",
      "status": "Documented infrastructure capacity and planning",
      "limitations": "Not measured active power (MW) or energy used (MWh). Capacity cannot establish actual event consumption.",
      "values": {
        "capacity_MVA": 120,
        "transformers": 3,
        "each_MVA": 40,
        "voltage_kV": [
          138,
          13.8
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "worldcup-operations",
      "claim": "Twelve host cities, redundant stadium supply, reinforced teams and thermal dispatch for reliability; altered consumption habits reported.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "cup",
          "title": "Copa do Mundo de Futebol de 2014 — Relatório Anual",
          "url": "https://www.ons.org.br/sites/multimidia/Documentos%20Compartilhados/relatorios%20anuais/RA2014_ONS/copa-do-mundo-de-futebol-de--2014.html",
          "source_type": "Event documentation",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
          "year": "2014 / 2015"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil SIN / World Cup host cities",
      "time_scale": "2014 World Cup: 12 June–13 July",
      "indicator": "Operational preparation and load behavior",
      "unit": "Qualitative",
      "status": "Documented preparation and operational observations",
      "limitations": "Reliability measures and plausible mechanisms do not quantify national energy savings or sector contributions."
    },
    {
      "id": "rio-planning",
      "claim": "ONS prepared resilience studies and broadcasting coordination for Rio 2016.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "rio",
          "title": "Jogos Olímpicos de 2016 — Relatório Anual",
          "url": "https://www.ons.org.br/sites/multimidia/Documentos%20Compartilhados/relatorios%20anuais/RA2014_ONS/jogos-ol%C3%ADmpicos-de-2016.html",
          "source_type": "Event documentation",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
          "year": "2014 / 2015"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Olympic electricity infrastructure / interconnected system",
      "time_scale": "Planning described in the 2014 annual report, before the 2016 Games",
      "indicator": "System preparedness",
      "unit": "Qualitative",
      "status": "Pre-event planning",
      "limitations": "Does not establish MWh used or the final measured reliability outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "stadium-sustainability",
      "claim": "Pre-event research discusses Green Goal efficiency, renewables and sustainable building criteria.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "cesar",
          "title": "Sustentabilidade Econômica em Arenas e Estádios: estudo sobre as instalações da Copa do Mundo de Futebol 2014",
          "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318205076_Sustentabilidade_em_Arenas_e_Estadios_Estudo_sobre_as_Instalacoes_da_Copa_do_Mundo_de_Futebol_2014",
          "source_type": "Academic research",
          "author": "Fábio Soares César, Leandro Carlos Mazzei, Ary José Rocco Junior & Luciana Melloni R. de Oliveira",
          "year": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "2014 World Cup stadiums, Brazil",
      "time_scale": "Paper published December 2013, before the tournament",
      "indicator": "Sustainability planning / economic assessment",
      "unit": "Qualitative",
      "status": "Pre-event academic assessment",
      "limitations": "Incomplete construction limited environmental evaluation. Building certification is not a measured national energy saving."
    },
    {
      "id": "residential-drivers",
      "claim": "LMDI analysis distinguishes drivers of residential electricity use.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "andrade",
          "title": "Projeções e avaliação do consumo de energia elétrica para o setor residencial brasileiro a partir da técnica de decomposição Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI)",
          "url": "https://repositorio.ufmg.br/items/05150e85-d6b6-4d9b-84d1-055eab01d9db",
          "source_type": "Academic research",
          "author": "Fabrício Vieira Andrade · Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais",
          "year": "2014"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil residential sector",
      "time_scale": "2014 doctoral thesis; scenarios for 2005–2020",
      "indicator": "Residential electricity drivers / scenarios",
      "unit": "Methodological; no scenario coefficient used on site",
      "status": "Academic decomposition and projections",
      "limitations": "Projected values are not observed event impacts."
    },
    {
      "id": "olympic-model",
      "claim": "A 78-country study reports higher per-capita national energy in preparation and hosting years; the following-year change was not statistically significant.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "ko",
          "title": "A sudden surge: The impact of hosting the Olympics on national energy consumption (1970–2022)",
          "url": "https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/366862",
          "source_type": "Academic research",
          "author": "Jeremy Ko, Anthony Chun-Fung Cheung, Chun Kai Leung, Joseph Francis Wong & Wai-Kit Ming",
          "year": "2025"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "78 countries; pooled national data",
      "time_scale": "1970–2022; paper published 2025",
      "indicator": "Total national per-capita energy",
      "unit": "Model result; no numerical coefficient transferred",
      "status": "Academic model estimate",
      "limitations": "Not a measured city-level Rio electricity effect. Country/event contexts vary. DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101536."
    },
    {
      "id": "copa-america-plan",
      "claim": "ONS special operation and match bulletins for Copa América 2019.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "copa2019",
          "title": "Operação do SIN durante a Copa América 2019",
          "url": "https://www.ons.org.br/Paginas/resultados-da-operacao/copa-america-2019.aspx",
          "source_type": "Event documentation",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
          "year": "2019"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil SIN",
      "time_scale": "14 June–7 July 2019",
      "indicator": "Operational plan and event documentation",
      "unit": "Qualitative",
      "status": "Planning; observations identified separately in bulletin",
      "limitations": "Expected load behavior in the plan is not itself an observed result."
    },
    {
      "id": "peru-bulletin-ramps",
      "claim": "Brazil–Peru final: 5,615 MW halftime rise in 9 minutes; 2,349 MW rise after the match in 15 minutes.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "peru2019",
          "title": "Resultados da operação do SIN durante o jogo Brasil × Peru",
          "url": "https://www.ons.org.br/AcervoDigitalDocumentosEPublicacoes/Boletim%20da%20Copa%20Am%C3%A9rica%20-%20Brasil%20x%20Peru%20-%20070719%20%C3%A0s%2017h00.pdf",
          "source_type": "Event documentation",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
          "year": "07/07/2019"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil SIN",
      "time_scale": "7 July 2019, kickoff 17:00 Brasília time; reference Sunday 30 June",
      "indicator": "Load change over stated interval",
      "unit": "MW over minutes",
      "status": "Observed ramps reported by ONS",
      "limitations": "Different durations; neither number is energy consumption. Do not infer these minute-scale values from the separate hourly series.",
      "values": {
        "halftime": {
          "change_MW": 5615,
          "minutes": 9
        },
        "after_match": {
          "change_MW": 2349,
          "minutes": 15
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "confederations-2013",
      "claim": "Six host cities, reinforced teams, restoration tests and operating procedures; required load, frequency and voltage performance met.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "confed",
          "title": "Relatório Anual 2013 — Operação Diferenciada em Grandes Eventos",
          "url": "https://www.ons.org.br/sites/multimidia/Documentos%20Compartilhados/relatorios%20anuais/Relatorio_ONS_2013.pdf",
          "source_type": "Event documentation",
          "author": "ONS · Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico",
          "year": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Brazil SIN / Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Fortaleza, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador",
      "time_scale": "15–30 June 2013; annual report pp. 23–24",
      "indicator": "Operational reliability / preparation",
      "unit": "Qualitative",
      "status": "Reported operational observations",
      "limitations": "No event-attributable electricity total or fabricated match curve is presented."
    },
    {
      "id": "sdg-connection",
      "claim": "Primary connection: target 7.3, improving energy efficiency; secondary context: access (7.1) and renewables (7.2).",
      "sources": [
        {
          "id": "sdg",
          "title": "Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy",
          "url": "https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal7",
          "source_type": "International energy sources",
          "author": "United Nations / Nações Unidas",
          "year": "2030"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "Global development goals",
      "time_scale": "2030 target horizon",
      "indicator": "Policy target",
      "unit": "Qualitative target; no achieved saving asserted",
      "status": "Normative target",
      "limitations": "Individual action complements infrastructure, access and public policy."
    },
    {
      "id": "calculator",
      "claim": "Electricity use and avoided-use scenarios: kWh = W / 1000 × hours; month = 30 days; collective = per-person saving × participants.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Project arithmetic and explicitly illustrative appliance inputs",
          "source_type": "Transparent calculation",
          "author": "Energy in Play",
          "year": "2026"
        }
      ],
      "geography": "User-selected illustrative household/action, not a national measurement",
      "time_scale": "Daily use and a 30-day month",
      "indicator": "Estimated energy use and avoided use",
      "unit": "kWh / MWh",
      "status": "Illustrative calculation, not survey data or measured savings",
      "limitations": "Constant average electrical input power; no rebound/additional use elsewhere; participants perform the same action. Device ratings vary. Reduced hours cannot exceed daily hours."
    }
  ]
}