Show HN: Gridhour – when UK electricity is green and cheap, in your terminal

Category: cli-tool

Tags: carbon-intensity, energy, tui, uk, octopus-energy

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Gridhour is a terminal-based tool that combines UK carbon intensity forecasts with Octopus Agile electricity prices to recommend the best times to run household jobs like charging an EV or washing clothes. It offers a rich TUI, scriptable JSON/line outputs, deadline and split-window optimization, and extensive documentation—making it a polished, privacy-conscious utility for UK energy-aware users.

Target audience: UK homeowners and developers with time-of-use energy tariffs, particularly those on Octopus Agile, and scripters automating energy-intensive tasks.

Repository: https://github.com/777dimas/gridhour · Python · MIT · 1 stars

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