I've been very active in power management / power control for several decades on a personal level and business. Everything in my home that relates to energy consumption is monitored, tracked, and stored for historic recall. The primary system(s) are tasked to reduce my energy consumption while insuring any out of band events or conditions are acted upon, notified, and / or terminated.
This dedicated circuit monitors 90% of the network infrastructure and security force protection elements.
Just a quick glimpse as to how my energy consumption went up from 2013 ~ 2021. In large part to adding more infrastructure hardware, on time, and increased electrical rates.
To help offset the increase in energy consumption two separate and independent PV systems are in place. Both are grid tied but operate separately from another. A third PV system runs in a off grid capacity and is completely isolated from anything else to the home but is available to provide redundant power to mission critical systems if and when needed
