Load

There are two main problems with load and solar.

One is avoiding spikes that require grid electricity.

The other if the overall load exceeds the solar generation capacity.

Avoid spending energy where it doesn't count

Central air conditioning systems are very wasteful of energy if you have a large house like I do and most of the time you are not using the whole house.

During the night I found that even with only half the central A/C switched on that that battery simply didn't have the ability to discharge enough energy to meet the need of the A/C.

I solved that problem with a local A/C unit just in my bedroom which drew a lot less energy - so a double win in terms of less load and the battery had enough ability to meet the demand of the air conditioner.

A cooling blanket is even more effective in terms of delivering cooling where it was needed for sleep.

Smaller more efficient applicances really help

I used to cook with a range top which used resistive heating which is very inefficient and a small oven which is also surprising heavy in spike consumption at 2.6kW.

Converting to using smaller induction stoves which heat up faster and air fryers are much easier on demand

Slowing down the pool pump

Cutting the pool pump speed to half can reduce instantaneous power consumption by 87%. So it's a huge optimization to figure out how to run it for longer periods at slower speeds. See pool pump efficiency.