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The house's utility electricity meter indicates 84,969kwh today.

The most recent entry other than this one says 76188kwh on 2022-05-02

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caiso - renewables - utility electricity - 18Gw

robert@lenovoyogac930:/tmp$ echo $(( 21040 - 3104 )) 17936 17.94Gw *huzzah!*

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August 2022 - heat wave almost all month - utility electricity bill

For the month of August this year, in the 626, there was a heat wave. It seemed almost every day of the month of Aug where I live, was over 100F.

Because of this, I ran one of our 5000BTU, 500watt, window air conditioners probably ever day.

For a few days, when it was ( Read more... )

caiso - renewables - utility electricity - 16Gw

Seems renewables (solar + wind) contributing 16Gw of energy to the grid today. *huzzah!*

robert@lenovoyogac930:/tmp$ echo $(( 22783 - 6661 )) 16.122Gw

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Electricity - utility - kwh

Most previous most recent utility electricity house power reading: date was 2021-11-28, reading was 73153kwh

Most recent utility electricity house power reading: date was 2022-05-02, reading was 76188kwh.

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california - utility electricity - renewables - caiso

Having a mini-heatwave lately. Temps in the high 90s.

Looked at the CAISO monitoring webpage yesterday. It seems renewables (wind+solar) contributed about 14GW of system power. Pix:


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Electricity. Solar power. PV. EV.

One of the houses in my neighborhood recently purchased a Tesla Model 3, so that is one more EV nearby. The same house installed a PV solar system, a big one. I counted about 25 panels on three sections of their roof. *huzzah!*

So, I might guesstimate PV houses in the few blocks surrounding where I live could ( Read more... )

house repairs - house wiring

While the center bathroom was being worked on, one of the repairs done was to relocate and replace a power plug, so that someone can run a hair dryer at the location of the new sink.

While the work was being done, a connection to the common, (house wiring has two "hot phases" A, B, and a common. The common is ( Read more... )