3. Energy Use and Smart Devices

10. Further Resources

• The short video Energy Slaves explains how much energy is needed for different activities in the home and introduces the openly licensed course from TU Delft in the Netherlands Zero Energy Design: An approach to make your building sustainable.
• For a more in-depth look at energy use in the European Union, try this Eurostat course Shedding light on energy in the EU: A guided tour of energy statistics.
• If you would like to, you can experiment with this IEA Energy Mix tool to see how much energy we use for different purposes. 
• Further develop your skills to better understand information about energy consumption and production in this Every1 course Energy Information and Critical Literacy.
• Read more about the European Commission’s plans for energy digitalisation in Digitalisation of the energy system.  
• Look at different countries smart meter take-up in Statista’s Share of household consumers equipped with a smart meter in Europe in 2023  
• Read the EU Science Hub’s Saving the environment and shifting to renewables drives new energy technologies development.  

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