I literally have no idea how much energy my apartment uses. This is like not knowing whether your car gets 10mpg or 50mpg.
Feels like a big gap in infrastructure situation awareness.
Conversation
Replying to
Why’s that? Take your bill and divide by 30 for daily average - you can see both volumetric and peak consumption
2
1
Replying to
Unlike a car which is 2 big loads (motive power and air conditioning), and one small (electrical), home is about a dozen larger loads and several dozen smaller ones
1
Replying to
You asked about whole building load, not disaggregation :) Disaggregation is harder - can be (maybe) done with Sense, Bidgely, or DIY with CTs (current transformers) on the breakers
1
Replying to
I actually meant while building load and it’s *sensitivity* to various operating conditions like “doing laundry while watching tv in winter with heat on while chili is stewing on stove”. The daily/weekly/seasonal variability in home use is much higher than auto.
Replying to
Err - not following. What’s sensitivity? Load is load - the instantaneous whole building kW load is the sum of all individual appliance loads. And - the kW/h, which is the basis of energy trade, is the average kW load over an hour.
1
Replying to
As in d/dt of load-changing actions. Doesn’t matter for supply. It’s a demand side management variable, with or without variable pricing of supply. Basically advanced versions of “run your dishwasher at night.”
2
1
Show replies

