Ard adds a calendar item for his Nissan Leaf car on his phone, … suspended silence… “Click” The Quasar EV charger springs into action and charges Ard’s Nissan Leaf, in expectation of him needing the car soon. The needles on our HomeAssistant app are switching, as well. V2G@Home demo in Utrecht, NL Smiles all around.…
The V2G@Home Living Lab we do together with Ard Jonker of Positive Design has closed the optimisation loop, with an eye on usability! As stated before, optimizing charging in a V2G situation with flexible tariffs, fluctuating solar and random car usage requires smart machine learning in the cloud. This meant we have to bring FlexMeasures…
A short opinion piece, about energy fairness and cooperation as a consequence of local and time-of-use energy prices. Local and time-of-use electricity prices can reduce energy bills, says a British think tank: “Such a system would encourage electric car drivers in Cornwall to charge their vehicles when its sunny and those in Aberdeenshire to charge…
This is the story of how we made sure that tracking local school holidays in Python becomes possible for data scientists, using workalendar (code example below). But let’s start at the beginning: When we write models that interpret and forecast meter data, we often encounter demand patterns that change drastically during holiday periods. When this…
We believe open source software is a corner-stone of modern IT, and we’re proud that this month, we were able to contribute. Here, we describe how much work is behind such a simple bugfix. We use many libraries every day, one of them being Pandas, the popular data analysis / manipulation library for Python. With…
