I’ve been iterating on PELS quite a bit since v1.5.9, and the main user-facing addition is a new Daily Energy Budget feature. The idea is simple: in addition to keeping you under an hourly capacity cap, you can now tell PELS roughly how many kWh you want to spend per day, and it will try to plan usage across the day in a way that follows electricity prices.
This budget is intentionally a soft constraint. That means it’s used for planning and limiting, but it won’t cause “panic behavior” like emergency shedding just because you’re trending above your daily target. Capacity control is still the hard safety rail; the daily budget is more of a steering wheel.
In practical terms, this gives you a way to avoid the classic “everything runs whenever it feels like it” pattern on days where you want to be stricter. If prices are uneven, the plan will try to allocate more of the day’s energy to cheaper hours and less to expensive ones. You also get a clearer view of what PELS thinks the day will look like versus what actually happened, including remaining/deviation and an estimated cost readout in NOK. When tomorrow’s prices are available, you can preview tomorrow’s plan as well.
I also improved reliability around price totals by making nettleie (grid tariff) fetching more robust in cases where the NVE API returns empty data, so totals are less likely to disappear.
Version: 1.7.4 (released January 3, 2026). If you run into issues or have suggestions for how daily budgeting should behave, post feedback here or open an issue on GitHub.
