Intelligent Decarbonization At Home

One of the biggest concerns today is the impact of human activities on the environment. To address these concerns, governments of all sizes and levels around the world are implementing significant changes to how we generate electricity, what powers our homes and automobiles, and the cost of resources we consume. Combine that with the financial impact caused by several years of rampant inflation, and you have a recipe for busting any family’s budget. This is where products like Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro come in.

Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro are electrical automation products for your home, commercial building, or other facility. Shelly can help you save energy, reduce your carbon footprint, and lower your monthly electric bill. These devices are designed to control 120-230v single wire electrical circuits and offer a range of built-in, local features such as timers, schedules, power on defaults, and scripting with JavaScript. What makes these devices unique is that they do not rely on cloud services, which means that they provide a high level of privacy and security.

So, how can Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro help in decarbonization and net-zero efforts? Well, the answer is quite simple. By using these devices, you can better manage your home's energy consumption and reduce wastage. This is important because, on average, residential energy consumption accounts for 21% of total energy use in the United States. By reducing this consumption, we can reduce our carbon footprint and move closer to a sustainable future.

The timers and scheduling features of Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro are particularly useful in this regard. These features allow you to set specific times for your electrical devices to turn on and off. For instance, you can schedule your lights to turn off automatically when you leave the room, or your HVAC system to turn off when you're not at home. This not only saves energy but also helps extend the life of your electrical devices.

Another great feature of Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro is their power on default settings. This setting allows you to determine if, when changing your building’s electrical source or after a power outage, a circuit should power on, remain off, default to a switch position, or return to the last state before the power cycle. If you care about staggered startup – preventing a massive surge of circuits powering on at once when you switch to generator or a battery, this one feature lets you totally customize your home’s electrical startup.

Combined with timers and schedules, the power default setting in Shelly devices can give you great flexibility for load shedding and load sharing. In real world terms, this means that you can set a consumption cap, turning off less important circuits when renewables drop, extending the time before you buy grid power. You can set delays between powering on circuits when switching to battery or generator, reducing inrush current on sensitive inverters.

Scripting with JavaScript is another powerful feature of these devices. With scripting, you can create custom rules and automation routines for your electrical devices. For instance, you can create a “last guy out” function that turns off all the lights in your office on Friday evening, making sure you’re not paying to light a building over the weekend. You can also create custom routines that turn on specific devices when you arrive home from work. The possibilities are endless, and you can tailor your automation routines to suit your specific needs.

One of the most significant benefits of using Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro products is the level of privacy and security they provide. Unlike other automation products, these devices do not rely on cloud services to function. This means that all your data and settings remain on your own system and are not stored on external servers. This provides an additional layer of security, making it harder for hackers to access your information.

The best part of local control? You can have all the same benefits of building automation when you’re completely off-grid.

Using home automation products like Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro can also help lower your monthly electric bill. By reducing your energy consumption, you can save money on your electricity bills. For instance, by using the scheduling features of these devices, you can ensure that your lights and HVAC system are turned off when they are not needed. This can significantly reduce your energy consumption, resulting in lower monthly bills.

Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro products are valuable tools in decarbonization and net-zero efforts. By reducing energy waste, managing consumption, and safeguarding privacy, these devices help move us closer to a sustainable future while lowering your electric bill.?