CPU Utilisation
If you haven’t got CPU scaling enabled, do it now. On my Desktop PC there is a 30 watt saving between 2.2Ghz and 1Ghz, which is well used as you can see from the graph.
Time in state data:
michael@fornax:~$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
2200000 194267
2000000 3460
1800000 37424
1000000 1872570

Time spent in each CPU frequency state
Time is in 10mS