PVO not handling Power Outages Logically resulting in Extreme Power usage recorded

Problems
#1

As Reported on Whirlpool, PVO is not handling Power Outages logically which is resulting in Extreme Power usage recorded for days with these events.

I’ve had 2 significant power outages in the last 3 months resulting in crazy amounts of power being recorded when no power was available to be used.

On the 27th of March we had a ~5 hour outage and according to PVO we used 16 kWh’s with no power to the house:

https://pvoutput.org/intraday.jsp?id=4988&sid=27734&gs=0&dt=20170327

and on the 4th of May we had a ~10 hour outage and according to PVO we used 62 kWh’s with no power to the house:

https://pvoutput.org/intraday.jsp?id=4988&sid=27734&dt=20170504

BB has explained that power use reported immediately after an outage (in the above 2 examples 3,713W & 6,416W) is applied across all points between the times missing data.

I’m a huge fan of your work BB and have been a paid supporter for years, but I cant comprehend why PVO would operate like this as it leads to wildly inaccurate results whenever someone has a power outage (like below).

Wouldn’t a better solution be to not make up data where it doesn’t exist?

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#2

Updated to use standby power instead of last power when calculating missing usage.

https://pvoutput.org/intraday.jsp?id=4988&sid=27734&dt=20170504

#3

Hi BB, that’s great if there are simply 15mins of missing data (happens all the time), but in the case of power outages our houses arent using any power at all - but attributing power use where there literally is none … I dont get it?

PS. 4kWh’s of phantom use is certainly a lot better than 60+ kWh’s, so thank you. :slight_smile:

#4

We will keep it to standby power as outages are an uncommon occurrence for a majority of systems.

#5

Fair enough, you have more data than I do to back your case. :sunglasses: