Improvements in and around my home
Almost as soon as I commissioned my solar and battery system, I wanted to be able to monitor it outside of just the Enphase app on my phone or the various Enphase URLs. I had been considering a Home Assistant installation for a while and thought this was a good time to start. My initial…
I have decided after a year of maths heavy monthly postings, to make these a little lighter from that view point. I will still be doing the maths in the background, but only posting the savings and comparisons here. There were a number of Saver Sessions during the month of January, but more on those…
I bought my first Arduino back in about 2011 around the same time as I was building my first 3D printer. The controller for that 3D Printer was a Sanguinololu board which is based on an ATmega644p, the big brother of the ATmega328p used on the various Arduino boards. This gave me exposure to single…
I made the switch to Octopus Energy in early January 2024 and have made a few additional changes since then, with the addition of my solar and battery installations coming online in April and July. Even the initial switch made some huge savings compared to what I was paying with E-ON over the previous few…
This is the eighth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there was 1 ‘Saver Session’ during the month. December Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of December was 56.50kWh, solar production was pretty poor with a low of 0.95kWh and a…
This is the seventh full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there was 1 ‘Free Electricity’ event during the month. November Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of November was 55.17kWh, solar production was pretty poor with a low of 0.77kWh and…
This is the sixth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices went up this month, peak electricity went up from £0.2439/kWh to £0.2672/kWh, off-peak electricity remained at £0.70/kWh and the standing charge went up from £0.4785/day to £0.4879/day. October Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of October was 53.98kWh,…
This is the fifth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there was 1 ‘Free Electricity’ event during the month. September Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of September was 57.26kWh, we have quite a large variation in solar production from a…
This is the fourth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there were 4 ‘Free Electricity’ events during the month – more on that later. August Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of August was 60.73kWh, we have quite a large variation…
My last network upgrade post was on 16th December 2022, quite a bit has changed since then and I forgot to document any of it, so I will provide an update here. In September 2023, I purchased a larger 15U rack for use in my office, as I wanted a slightly deeper one so it…