curiousChallenge Explorer
Energy Innovationintermediate~35 mins

Create an innovation that helps households monitor and reduce energy waste.

Energy waste hides in always-on devices and inefficient habits.

Real-world context

Energy waste hides in always-on devices and inefficient habits. Helping households see and act on it requires turning data into simple, timely nudges.

The challenge

Create an innovation that helps households monitor and reduce energy waste. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

Reflection prompts

  • Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
  • What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
  • Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?