Thursday (20-February-2020) — New Jersey

Daily Electric Energy Used (79.0 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (32.4 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Cloudy and colder. A deficit of 46.6 kWh.

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Wednesday (19-February-2020) — New Jersey

Daily Electric Energy Used (61.0 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (52.1 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Lots of sun. A deficit of 8.9 kWh.

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Tuesday (18-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Nighttime Winter Nature in New Jersey.

Opossum showed up on the patio.

Daily Electric Energy Used (66.8 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (19.2 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Mostly cloudy all day. A deficit of 47.6 kWh.


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Monday (17-February-2020) — New Jersey

Outdoor Wintertime Nature in New Jersey. Signs of Spring.

When I woke up this morning, one of the “Images of the Day” that came up on my Echo Show was of a Purple Crocus flower. I went online to check the date, and found that the image was posted eight years ago 17-February-2012. After the sun came up, and it was warmer outside I went searching and found the Purple Crocuses had bloomed overnight. I didn’t see them the day before.

Early Purple Crocus Flower. Image taken with a Fuji X-T3 camera and 80 mm f/2.8 lens + 1.4x TCE (ISO 320, 112 mm, f/8, 1/280 sec). Copyright © 2020 David J. Mathre
Early Purple Crocus Flowers. Image taken with a Fuji X-T3 camera and 80 mm f/2.8 lens + 1.4x TCE (ISO 320, 112 mm, f/8, 1/250 sec). Copyright © 2020 David J. Mathre

Daily Electric Energy Used (67.7 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (49.4 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. More sun and warmer so the Geothermal HVAC didn’t have to work as hard. Still a deficit of 18.3 kWh.

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Sunday (16-February-2020) — New Jersey

Indoor Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

A Red Poppy flower opened this morning. The seed was planted 113 days ago in one of my indoor AeroGarden hydroponic gardens. I have been watching the bud for the last several day wondering when it would finally open — each day setting up a camera to record a time-lapse video.

Daily Electric Energy Used (78.4 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (32.5 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Not as much sun, but warmer so the Geothermal HVAC didn’t have to work as hard. Still a deficit of 45.9 kWh.

Weekly Electric Energy Used (536 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Weekly Solar Electric Energy Produced (181 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Total deficit of 355 kWh. Usage should be going down now that the Server/Storage upgrade is complete. On days that the sky is clear more power is being generated as the sun gets higher above the horizon.

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