I finally got around to adapting the existing scripts to crunch the data from the house. Charting solar performance data is a great way to keep track of the output from your home’s solar array. By plotting relevant metrics such as total energy output, peak hour production, and more, you’ll […]
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Solar Roof Install: A Personal Goal This year I fulfilled a personal project of installing solar on my house. A few years back I installed solar on my garage. The house project started with replacing the roof. The roof had 3 layers of shingles one of which was the original […]
The Chevy Volt PHEV is the ultimate melding of the technologies and perhaps currently the most practical and immediate way to offset our unavoidable CO2 emissions
I was successful in porting the solar inverter data to MRTG! This is accomplished with a program called RRDTool developed by the author of the original MRTG. A script was needed to import the raw solar data into a database using a handy language called python. RRDTool uses a database called […]