2024 February
February was definitely summer but very overcast with much higher humidity and overnight temperatures than other months in recent memory (median temperature 21.7 °C). The HRV was in the cooling season and we were often not able to cool the house by openning the windows in the evening / night as the overnight temperature didn't drop far enough. The split system was cooling during peak solar production and even overnight when the temperature did not drop. Outside temperatures ranged from 14 to 38 °C, while inside we were a comfortable 20 to 25 °C. The month was quite overcast which decreased our solar production... and running the A/C overnight resulted in higher energy consumption relative to last year. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hope that I will be able to use the temperature range for all months. Methods: I have taken the 5 minutely data from the wirelessTag sensors and calculat...