Earth Notes: On Website Technicals (2026-04)

Updated 2026-04-02.

Tech updates: per-minute Eddi tweaks...

And more sun... Continued tweaking of our energy system to ensure comfort and low cost for 16WW while maximising climate good, and ease pressure on war-impacted gas supplies just a tad...

2026-04-02: Uptime

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Eddi control tweaks

I adjusted the places where the per-minute Eddi control script, nominally for grid frequency response, script/myenergi/eddiFreqResponse-netrc.sh, delays STOP-ing (going into grid expected peak hours) and un-STOP-ing (coming out of STOP mode eg once frequency is OK). I pushed up the randomised maximum delay up by ~20s to over 40s.

This aims to reduce herding effects in each case.