The UK is currently experiencing some prolonged windy weather and my all-renewable energy provider offers dynamic pricing. That means cheap energy and even negative-cost energy. This is where my HA instance shines and saves me a fortune on my power bill. Thanks again to the HA devs for this incredible project.

For the curious, I’m using bottlecapdave’s excellent Home Assistant Octopus Energy integration via HACS.

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Are there any creative energy sinks you could run when the price goes negative? I can only think of mining crypto or transcoding video or stuff like that.

    • rmukOPEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      Dingdingding! Correct. For the chepest two hours a day (or any time cost is negative) Home Assistant gives Portainer a kick and I sail the high seas. Whenever costs are negative I saturate my servers with BOINC CPU-heavy workloads like ClimatePrediction, Rosetta@Home, LHC@Home and World Community Grid.

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Flip side of heating could be to lower the temperature of freezers. If the energy is free anyways.

    • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      One of those giaaant resistors and a significantly higher current service from the utility!!

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Flip side of heating could be to lower the temperature of freezers. If the energy is free anyways.