Recently I installed Solar on my house and since I've wanted to track my energy consumption a bit more in depth. Additionally, I wanted to make sure that my EV was mostly being driven for Free, powered by the sun.

A few Claude and ChatGPT sessions later, I found out about https://evcc.io - an automatic energy controller to connect your EV Charging with your Solar Infrastructure. This project was made to work with quite a bit of different EVs, Charging Equipment, and Solar Inverters and Batteries.

Funny enough, more than 1 year before the EVCC project started, I worked on my own version of this. Although I stopped at only roughly supporting my own equipment back then. https://github.com/bttnns/ev-solar-divert

Anyway, today EVCC is able to log all data into InfluxDB -- making it easy to wire up grafana and build some fancy visualizations to help become a better producer and consumer of energy.

This chart allows me to visually see various usage, which in part will allow me to shift that usage under Solar Generation -- providing more clean energy to my actual usage, generating more clean energy to the grid, and consuming less and less non-renewable energy overall.