Our street has a lovely tradition of folks putting simple sets of lights on the trunks of the trees along the road at Christmas. I have been doing the tree outside an elderly neighbours along with those in front of mine.
Today I discovered that someone has stolen that set. #grinch #coalforxmas

Wild lights was once more a great outing on a winters evening. Highly recommend for anyone vaguely near Dublin zoo.

Super frustrating update from anpost where they don't actually tell you that they are not going to bother attempting to deliver and instead you have to go collect from the depot.

Anyone here able to ID this industrious spider. They built a web several meters wide across our driveway overnight.

Nice to see @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social putting accessible playground equipment in parks. This swing was a lot of fun

Being able to use the batteries to shift our grid imports to offpeak windows is what makes this work out
You can see the impact of this on grid voltage from off peak usage in this chart. Also noticeable is the voltage peaking at 256V during the sunny parts of the day

Solar Statistics time, we had a string of really good days but the month ended with 42.72kWh of generation the 30th.
YTD solar has produced 77% of our consumption, not yet netzero but the summer awaits.
However the 29th was when export income for the year overtook all costs.

Solar stats for Jan-Mar 2025.
56.44% of our energy over that period came from solar.
worst day was Jan 5th with 1.01kWh (3.8% of usage)
best day was Mar 30th with 32.8kWh (223% of usage)
Peak usage was 33.58kWh on Jan 6th, average was 21.2kWh
You can see the last week in Feb when solar ramps up.

The perils of using scheduled posts and forgetting to fill in the details in the template.

This image was one of my favourites. Homework only done on one side of the table

While waiting for a parade to start I spotted this great example of roofs with not enough solar. The marginal cost of covering the rest of these roofs with solar would have been minimal.

On one hand while house air filtering is great and I like the resulting air quality. On the other hand the monthly filter cleaning is an unfun task. I live beside a 100+ hectare park near the sea in Dublin so I likely have better than average air quality but it still is a surprise how dirty it is.

Yesterday was our first net power positive day of the year. Not too shabby for February in Ireland.

folks with heatpumps and solar/battery systems to ran out of stored power. In my case that happened at 9pm where as on the 7th there was enough solar during the day to handle the extra heating load.