Whatever place, that was robbery.

And while they are at it, put a battery in too.

Could have been me. I’ve been working on this as a hobby for over five years yers since we got solar panels, EV and a dedicated battery for storage.

Smarter devices support demand side response, which is welcome to make the grid more efficient. A good local energy-efficient solution includes in my experience three key ingredients.

First you need local energy storage to allow for extra flexibility to handle life’s ebbs and flows. This could be an EV or dedicated storage battery, which can be charged when electricity is abundant, and discharged when supply is tight and something energy hungry needs doing.

Second the grid side will not know when I’m planning to do something energy hungry, or when I want the EV battery full instead of the usual 80% charge. Therefore some way of providing input is needed. It might be possible to learn reasonable local demand forecast models reflecting local behaviour patterns, but I’m not yet convinced about this and tend to trust human guidance more.

Third you need intelligent control to respond to grid signals (e.g. price changes) and combine those with local inputs and any local consumption and production (e.g. from solar panels or micro wind turbines) forecasts.

Energy companies will of course want to have the intelligent control in their hands as it creates them price arbitrage. For majority of consumers that will be the best solution. Some of us will not necessarily want to give them that control and prefer a local solution.

I forgot suncream the other day. I will not make that mistake again. Until next Spring, anyway.

Working on a deck in back garden. Looks like the weather will be favourable.

I think you nailed it, a tempting target for spare milkshakes.

TIL a new term that I shall be using.

There’s a lot going on in the title alone!

Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public information.

Tories have an amazing hit rate in selecting deplorables as their leader.

Feature, not a bug.

My first thought seeing the captain is Russian was sabotage. And maybe a second later I realised the more likely cause: vodka.

One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.

We have enough twats as it is, so perhaps fuck off.

Obviously they were too busy lining their and mates’ pockets, and in general being totally useless politicians.

Ugh ugh ugh!

Solar + local battery is the way. We should push hard to make that affordable for as many people as possible.

Quite why you get downvotes for this comment eludes me. Whatever, here is one up from me.

What’s with the agism? Old geezers like me find a day’s work incredibly stressful!