How Much Energy Does Building Distro Packages Use

> This was pretty beneficial as the idle draw was about 55W. Over 7 months, this would be have been around 275kWh: almost 3 times the reported consumption of 98kWh! So idle draw is a very important factor, which I think is too often ignored (this is a perfect counter example, where it was taken into account: congrats!)

The solar system on our house is 15 years old and I have no insight into generation aside from looking at the little LCD on the inverter itself. However, I live in a sunny location (Sunshine Coast, Australia), so you'd get a long way from just having the builder shutdown a hour or two before sunset and and come back…

Very cool to see this measured! I'd love to see things like build jobs get queued until lots of solar energy was available, then executed until the renewable energy went away. I know this was done somewhat manually in this case, but automating that would be really cool. Build jobs are a great opportunity to shift…