Weather-Aware Home Energy Planner

📋 Purpose

This tool turns live weather, half-hour electricity prices, and carbon forecasts into a practical home energy schedule. It shows what to run, when to run it, and why those times are better.

⚙️ How It Works

1. 1
   Enter your UK postcode. We validate it and map it to your local weather and Agile pricing region.
2. 2
   Choose a 24, 48, or 72 hour window, then choose whether to optimize for lower cost or lower carbon.
3. 3
   Add each appliance with the earliest start, latest end, and run duration. Add EV charging if needed.
4. 4
   We fetch live Open-Meteo weather, Octopus Agile half-hour prices plus standing charge, and UK carbon intensity forecasts.
5. 5
   The planner scores each possible slot and picks the best valid slot for each load inside your time limits.
6. 6
   You review Key Insights, schedule cards, action windows, and metric explanations to decide what to run and when.