Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Absolutely. It can be a hard sell spending, say, $1500 on a VFD for a pool when ROI is uncertain. I’m always an early adopter… I am fortunate to have time to research and play. It has saved us loads, coupled with solar. 010
Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I love the moments when everything we are generating is going to the house, the car and hot water. We’re not paying line charges to Powerco or gentailer charges to Meridian. It all makes perfect sense. New Zealand made energy in action! #nzpol @greens.org.nz 020
Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I made a V2L for our Leaf. Plugs into our Victron Inverter. NZ is so far behind on V2G. All we have are some trials at the moment. 020
Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026It never gets boring watching the car soaking up the excess solar minimising the amount of electricity we export. Also the Reclaim Energy heat pump hot water taking advantage of a sunny day with a COP of about 5 #EV #solar #homeassistant #reclaimenergy 061
Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I was so thrilled to see these at the conference along with the data online. I’ve built quite a few of @oseiler.bsky.social CO2 monitors during Covid and there are six in our house still running every day. Oliver is an awesome person. 142
Rich @friendlykiwi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I’ve started collecting the half hourly spot prices… the gentailers are doing pretty well for themselves at the moment given that the spot price have been below 2 cents per kWh for much of the last week. 120
