Archive of posts from December 2012

  • Home Performance App Upgrade

    I’ve updated our home performance app at, NetPlusDesign.com.

    Screenshot from new app.
    Screenshot from new app.

    At the beginning of the year I put together a simple online tool that displays our energy and temperature data on a daily and hourly basis. It gave me an easier way to track and visualize our energy usage on a month to month basis without a bunch of spreadsheet work. The heat maps provide an easy way to quickly find days of high energy use and see what else was going on that day. This helps me understand why usage might be high on a particular day.

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  • November performance

    Chart showing monthly usage, generation, net and hdd
    Chart showing monthly usage, generation, net and hdd

    We used 498 kWh and generated 615 kWh for a net surplus of 117 kWh in November. This is our ninth consecutive surplus month. We’ve generated a surplus of 3,622 kWh so far this year, guaranteeing we’ll be net positive for our first year of operation.

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