Tuesday 24 June · Te Awa dairy

Your day,
so far

Here's how the farm has been making and using power today.

Running well — no faults today

Today's story

From first light to now

6:10am

🌅

The sun's up, solar woke up

First light over the paddocks. Panels started trickling power into the shed.

0.4 kW and climbing

9:00am

🥛

Morning milking covered

Solar carried most of the shed through the early run. Very little drawn from the grid.

5.2 kW into the shed

11:30am

☀️

Peak of the day

Best sun of the day. The farm was making more than it needed and sending the rest to the grid.

9.2 kW at its best

1:00pm

🔋

Battery topped right up

Spare power went into the battery, ready for tonight's milking instead of the grid.

100% full by early afternoon

now2:48pm

Live now

Running well, and ahead of normal

Sun's still strong, battery holding, shed humming along. A better day than your average for this time of year.

8.4 kW

Solar making

6.1 kW

Shed using

64%

Battery

Powering yourself 71%

0%Normal day ~62%100%

And the bit that matters

$14.20

$312

this month

$2,840

since install

That's power you made yourself instead of buying. Today: 42 kWh generated, 58 kWh used, 6.3 kWh sold back, 17.1 kWh from the grid.

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That's the day so far. Check back this evening.