What does home energy management optimize?
The biggest opportunities are usually heating, hot water, battery and EV charging. Solar self-consumption improves when flexible loads are timed to local production.
Heat-pump and hot-water optimization
A heat pump should not chase the cheapest hour. Good control also respects indoor temperature, weather, hot-water demand, efficiency and equipment limits.
Home battery and solar
Battery control weighs state of charge, power limits, efficiency, expected load and solar forecast. The goal is to store or release energy when it improves the household balance.
EV charging
EV charging can move within the available time window. Departure time and required energy remain hard constraints, so charging still finishes when the user needs the car.
Dynamic electricity prices and demand flexibility
Dynamic prices make timing valuable, but price is only one signal. Flexible loads can move away from expensive or strained periods without compromising the household’s actual needs.
Why local control?
Local-first control keeps core decisions close to the home and reduces dependence on continuous cloud connectivity. Public pages describe outcomes and user-facing principles rather than device-integration internals.
How should savings be measured?
Savings need a defined baseline. Reliable reporting separates measured and modelled values, states data quality and avoids treating solar-system value as optimizer savings.