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Kudra :maybe_verified:

"Wholesale power prices tumble but experts warn little relief in sight for consumers"

... switch to Amber, I guess? My power prices are very reasonable, and I use a lot of my own generated solar power to charge up my #EV. I also think now might be the time to think about investing in a crypto rig that is triggered to turn on only when I am generating excess power, so I don't pay negative feed-in tariffs. (only half joking there btw... either that or something like protein folding? thoughts?)

amp.abc.net.au/article/1030041

#renewables #energy #auspol #ElectricVehicles #sustainability #AmberEnergy #OnGrid #costofliving #power #electricity

22 Oct 2023 at 22:34 | Open on aus.social
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sortius

@kudra folding@home is still going, and actually worthwhile, unlike crypto foldingathome.org

22 Oct 2023 at 22:41 | Open on mstdn.social
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@sortius I'd only want to mine something amusing like Dogecoin, but yes folding@home was what I was thinking of. I really need to investigate systems to turn on and off power use based on the wholesale power prices... there's got to be something that automates that relatively easily... certainly on a Windows box.

22 Oct 2023 at 22:52 | Open on aus.social
sortius

@kudra yeh, that should be easy enough to automate. I'm not sure what you'd use, as I've not really looked into it these days, but you should be able to pull power prices from the NEM and trigger power up/down of the machine via wake-on-lan or something like that

22 Oct 2023 at 23:12 | Open on mstdn.social
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@sortius yeah, I know someone who might even have interest in writing something like that, if it doesn't already exist.

22 Oct 2023 at 23:24 | Open on aus.social
Kudra :maybe_verified:

today:

Forecast negative not only Feed In Tarriffs but also usage costs: for Wed 25th October 2023 in my region of Victoria: the lowest I've ever seen. Getting paid for using power, it's a really interesting feature of the current energy transition. I will be using, for the first time, #Sensibo to schedule heat pump use even though I won't be at home, and see what this does to my costs for the day... 🤔

#solar #ongrid #sustainability #power #electricity #energy
24 Oct 2023 at 21:49 | Open on aus.social
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