One household, solar, a battery and the data: energy, from the household side.https://ownthepeak.au/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/i-electrified-my-house/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/i-electrified-my-house/Sixty-two per cent of five months of export earnings came from 205 half-hours. The value was never in the panels; it was in the data and the logic.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-feed-in-tariff-properly/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-feed-in-tariff-properly/What a wholesale feed-in tariff actually pays, why spike capture is the whole game, and how the plan compared with the alternatives over 130 days.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/your-battery-is-a-peaker-plant/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/your-battery-is-a-peaker-plant/A home battery on wholesale pricing earns its keep the way a peaker plant does: by dispatching at the right moment, against an objective with a sense of order.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-data-layer/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-data-layer/Why every number in this series reconciles to four invoices, to the cent, and the sign, timezone and settlement traps on the way there.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-forecast-wasnt-lying/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-forecast-wasnt-lying/The solar forecast looked badly wrong on cloudy days. It was not; the comparison was. Compare the forecast with potential output, not measured output.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-automation-stack/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-automation-stack/Two stacks of rules, a heat-pump race condition, and the restart that exported 8.7 kWh into a negative price one Sunday.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-economics-show-your-receipts/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-economics-show-your-receipts/$157.47 earned over four billing periods, reconciled to the cent, and why "how much did you earn" is the wrong question.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/what-im-doing-next/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/what-im-doing-next/A stocktake five months in: what surprised me, what I would do differently, and what comes next before winter.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/curtailment-trap/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/curtailment-trap/A summer of accurate bills was the wrong evidence for choosing a plan, because my own export curtailment had rewritten the generation record.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/manufacturing-hindsight/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/manufacturing-hindsight/Building a fairer test for plans from public weather, a long sunshine record and reconstructed prices, and the cooker circuit that the meter and the monitoring exposed between them.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/every-electron-has-a-cost-price/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/every-electron-has-a-cost-price/Three exported kilowatt-hours, three cost prices: straight off the roof, through the battery, or bought, stored and sold back.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-wear-toll/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-wear-toll/One deliberate charge-and-discharge test and a wear costing put a price on every kilowatt-hour my battery hands back.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/capture-fraction/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/capture-fraction/A simple free-window plan against an automated wholesale plan: the answer turns on how much of the theoretical value the household actually banks.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/two-seasons/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/two-seasons/In June I planned to switch plans twice a year; in October I moved to one fixed-schedule plan, and here is what I decided on, what the next day's checks showed, and what the first week on the meter says.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-number-48/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-number-48/A 48 kWh battery is the most free energy a house can store, not the most it can use; what a free window is worth turns on the plan's cap, how the cap is measured, the battery's spare room and the house's own use.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/two-identical-bedrooms/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/two-identical-bedrooms/Two bedrooms built the same way, one needing 48 per cent more heating. A fortnight of probe data rules out the heater, the wind and the sun, and points at the ceiling.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/night-the-battery-ran-dry/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/night-the-battery-ran-dry/On the coldest night of winter the house battery hit its floor and cost 29 cents. The daily mean lied about the cold, and the battery never really ran dry.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-fault-that-wasnt/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-fault-that-wasnt/A heat-pump hot water tank takes hours to recover from a morning's showers, and a household of five can't say when the showers will come, so the tank has to stay hot all day.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/copilot-model/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/copilot-model/What makes a one-person home project manageable is not the model but the system around it: a knowledge file, a memory index, an issue tracker and session rituals.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/never-accept-first-output/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/never-accept-first-output/The first draft of my first post had eighteen confident errors and still passed review. The fix was structural: a plan-review-execute-review-learn cycle with hard gates.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/knowledge-that-compounds/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/knowledge-that-compounds/Session five of a task should start further forward than session one. A plain-text memory system with a short index is what makes the lessons stick.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/agents-while-you-sleep/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/agents-while-you-sleep/Overnight agent runs are only as good as the brief and the shared state. One wrong fact in the knowledge file went into every post drafted that night.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/ecosystem-problem/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/ecosystem-problem/I asked an AI co-pilot to audit my own home project, which had sprawled to seven workstreams, and set a kill-or-commit date on one of them; then I let that date slide, and here is what happened.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-stack/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/the-stack/The four layers under my home energy project, how one real piece of work moved through them, and why the hard line between the assistant and the house is now mostly a rule.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/what-i-built/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/what-i-built/An honest inventory of the home AI machines, what runs on them today, what is defined but idle, and the fact that most of my AI work is still done in the cloud.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/memory-bandwidth/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/memory-bandwidth/Five office PCs, a mini PC and a graphics card suggest that, for dense models, memory bandwidth rather than drive speed or core count sets how fast a model talks, with one mixture-of-experts model as the exception.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/good-at-arithmetic/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/good-at-arithmetic/A price-plan model I run reproduced cell for cell on spare office PCs and a mini PC, which makes them fit for batch arithmetic, though none of them beats the fastest machine for a single job.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ownthepeak.au/posts/accelerators-need-memory/https://ownthepeak.au/posts/accelerators-need-memory/A graphics card with its own memory runs models fast until one no longer fits, while the extra processors in my mini PC share the CPU's memory and add little I could find.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT