residential monitoring to decrease energy use and carbon emissions in europe aníbal de almeida paula fonseca barbara schlomann nicolai feilberg carlos ferreira isr university of coimbra portugal fraunhofer isi germany sintef norway abstract this paper presents the preliminary results campaign which is being carried out scope eie project remodece whose overall objective contribute an increased understanding electricity consumption eu 25 2 households for different types equipment including consumers behaviour comfort levels identify demand trends on electronic loads relevance increasing significantly particular attention given standby generated by a large variety appliances from measurements it can be concluded that there wide range performance keywords stand efficiency policies market transformation climate change 1 introduction although significant improvements have been achieved home lighting average household has about per year during past 10 years some reasons such increase