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InkyCal
Despite tracking my calendar digitally, I have recently found it useful to have a hard copy next to my desk so I can see the next few weeks at a glance. I’ve been handling this by printing out an Excel template with the relevant events on and sticking it to the wall. Not exactly high tech and quickly out of date.
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A Simple Power Monitoring Idea
I’ve been thinking about how I, and others, can reduce the carbon intensity of our electricity consumption and evaluate whether a home battery might be both environmentally and finanically benficial, enabling load shifting to times when renewable energy dominates. Octopus Energy customers can download their smart meter usage data down to half hourly time periods, but what about other electricty suppliers’ customers? For anyone, would the half hourly smart meter consumption data be sufficient to get an accurate model of battery behaviour?
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