The tenuous links between industrial scale energy and my garden shed...

By Max van Someren

The tenuous links between industrial scale energy and my garden shed...

Ready To Build? These are my learnings from my public holiday weekend project:

1. The importance of community relations. A circular saw does not make for a peaceful Saturday morning! Fortunately we all watched the grand final together in the afternoon, so I think I got that bit right.

2. Energy strategy. Power hungry off-grid loads. My battery dispatch strategy had to ensure I didn't disrupt operations (keeping the workforce energy levels up with coffee and cheese toasties was important too).

3. Use of AI. Good for a first pass of the design (Claude + SketchUp MCP) but I still had to get in and tweak the details.

4. It's fun to build things! That's as true for my shed as it is for modelling energy systems in Levelised.

Love to hear if anyone else tackled something similar over the weekend.