We moved our nightly jobs to the greenest hours of the grid. Here's what it saved (spoiler: less than you'd think, and that's the point)
I'm a data analyst at a community energy co-op in Bristol. We're small: about 400 member households, a few solar roofs, a share in a wind turbine, and one Linux box in a rack in a shared data centre that runs all our nightly jobs (meter data imports, billing calcs, the dashboards members look at). People in this topic keep asking about carbon-aware scheduling, so here's an honest write-up of doing it for real,…
- Gaz reading a table with a beer is the most progress this thread has seen in months. respect to both of you
- Very good. I would like to point out one thing about the member scheduling: the household load profile is personal data under Art. 4 GDPR, and a time-of-use profile can reveal when people are at home. I assume you have a DPIA for it. 🙂