Alex

alex@fedi.smith.geek.nz

🇺🇦 🇵🇸 Ngāmotu (ish) based "Crazy Cat Man" owned by a small army of cats 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 who is currently on a break from working in InfoSec, spending time in my ~1 acre section trying to make food appear and making it a nice place for the long term.Sometimes I do radio stuff and take photos of the night sky. Post a fair bit of rambling nonsense interspersed with <a href="https://fedi.smith.geek.nz/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cat</a> pictures.Header is a panorama taken by me in Takapō mid 2020.<a href="https://fedi.smith.geek.nz/tags/nobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nobot</a> <a href="https://fedi.smith.geek.nz/tags/nz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nz</a>

Posts

Post #4429087
Currently averaging ~54c/kWh for my exports so far this month. Imports cost me about ~12c/kWh. Not bad. Exported 32.01 kWh @ $16.73 credit ($17.56 with rebate) Imported 163.18 kWh at $7.67 cost ($19.69 with line charges) That's not terrible really. Much better than my 12.5c export and 20/40c import.
Post #4385868
I do appreciate that all this info is shared by Transpower. They could quite easy hide it all behind “you need to be a participant” but they don’t. Obviously isn’t everything but yeah.
Post #4385811
Record grid load forecasted again for the next couple of days because of the cold snap. Be interesting to see how it shakes out, been a fair few Low Residual notifications gone out this week and the forward looking price is sitting around $5,195/MWh for tomorrow mornings peak. It’s currently sitting at around $67/MWh… Yesterday’s briefing had Thursday morning as an energy shortfall. That won’t happen but it’ll be reflected in the price above.
Post #4371731
Wonder if tonight's UFE will end up being reported in this weeks Transpower update they send out 🤔
Post #4370011
Excursion Notice Location: North Island NI Hz Level: 49.24 Comments: Huntly generation tripped Whoopsie, up goes the spot price hits export
Post #4067915
Jesus that was a rude awakening #eqnz
Post #4058037
It wet. This is normally not here. (Earlier, apparently didn’t post)
Post #4057966
At a bit of a loss this evening tbh
Post #4057762
Self host to avoid AI slop Get AI slop forced into self hosted stuff Why bother anymore.
Post #4050655
I'm a bit out of touch on this years InternetNZ voting options....
Post #4032329
Silly thoughts, lead to seeing this is fine slack emoji in unexpected places Remember, don't trust user input. That extends to things that are user controlled like User Agents 😅
Post #4019490
🎶 🔊 This house is cold and empty Just a ghost of who I used to be I stare at my own reflection Wondered if you'd even recognize me Last night I heard you whisper "Everything is fine 'cause I am here, I am here" Last night I saw your shadow But when I called your name you disappeared, you disappear Who's gonna say goodnight? Who's gonna stop the world from turning? Who's gonna numb my pain? Who's gonna save me when the sky is crashing down? 🎶 🔊 https://ficci...
Post #4003199
Oh no my app here reads every emoji out aloud from every notification from anyone 🤣🫠
Post #4002302
That's quite the price separation again. Shows how reliant the NI is on SI generation flows.
Post #3956111
Did treat myself to some books recently tho. Have another couple on order (were meant to be this week but now next week 😑)
Post #3955820
Start the second "term" of pottery classes tomorrow... wonder how much I forgot over the last while...
Post #3929501
Not bad for a winters day
Post #3894186
Powers a bit cheap this weekend.
Post #3871058
"Kind regards" with that typo... argh
Post #3856376
Going well
Post #3855999
*** Update as at 09:41 pm A Tsunami Warning has been issued following the magnitude 6.3 earthquake near Fiordland. Go to www.civildefence.govt.nz for the most up to date information #EQNZ ***
Post #3797297
10c/kWh? Don't mind if I do.
Post #3777466
oh god the vacuum ate a cat turd
Post #3777109
Genesis billing got broke by having to actually pay split rates for peak/off-peak exports (paraphrasing a support case I raised) This has delayed my move to wholesale/spot pricing and I'm very irritated by this.
Post #3758032
crawls back under his rock
Post #3757721
TIL filters don't seem to filter quote posts.
Post #3757703
table-flip.jif
Post #3736871
So tired of just about everything 😔😮‍💨
Post #3730578
@essjax@m.essjax.com it's changed a bit from it's other form https://www.austairdata.com.au/component/rsdirectory/entry/view/61171:zk-gul-1
Post #3730564
Looks like tomorrow’s got a huge spike in wholesale costs. I should check what going on but that means $2/kWh exports too 🙃 battery’s automation is going to dump itself into the grid at that point.