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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by kasey_junk on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:53AM (#26143271)
I have 2 charts running in my office all day. One is energy load and one is energy pricing. I also have the current energy price displayed on a screen in our kitchen.

This has worked to change our habits pretty well. For instance we now consider it “expensive” to run the dishwasher during the day. We’ll do it if necessary but there is now a mental barrier to doing so.

Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by bombcar on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:58AM (#26143301)
This is amusingly interesting to me. I’d love to know more about your setup and the results make sense (I’ve considered installing a second dishwasher to be able to handle an entire days worth of dishes overnight) but it also seems somehow slightly dystopian.

I agree with the note later in the thread that the solution is powerwall like things for demand smoothing / moving.

Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by kasey_junk on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:07PM (#26148849)
The screen in my kitchen is a dakboard (https://dakboard.com/site) we largely use it as a digital picture frame and calendar but it supports querying/parsing json out of the box. So to get the price on it I have it hit my providers json api https://hourlypricing.comed.com/hp-api/.

For the charts in my office I have a Prometheus/Grafana setup at home for a variety of things and built a bridge to the comed data for Prometheus (https://github.com/kklipsch/comed_exporter). For usage data I have a neat gadget called a Rainforest Automation Eagle (https://www.rainforestautomation.com/compare-emu-and-eagle/) that reads my smart meters radio signal. It exposes an xml api and I wrote a bridge to Prometheus (https://github.com/kklipsch/reagle).

Once it’s all in Prometheus the Grafana dashboards are pretty straight forward affairs.

Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by mitfahrener on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:33PM (#26150284)
Very cool