I’m curious as to what people are doing with their spare solar power.

I’m in the US and on NEM2. I already have batteries and discharge them when the rates are favorable.

But I still have a lot of leftover juice. My partner recently bought an EV but doesn’t drive much.

I set up a home lab and even bought a small bitcoin miner that turns on when electricity rates are favorable.

  • Tja@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Very boring. I have 10kwh of battery in the basement, another 4 under my desk, and 77 and 30 parked in the garage.

    Even then on sunny summer weeks everything is full around 11am. I use some to cool down the house for extra comfort and just export the rest to the grid, around 1.4MWh per year (out of 7.3MWh produced). At 8 cents per kWh it’s about 115 euros… not great but not bad either.

    My homelab consumed about 1.1MWh last year.

    I’m installing more solar this year, to have higher production in winter. Will result in even higher export in summer, probably.