u/Raise_A_Thoth

Have Classic for PC and I noticed that at some point the playspeed *apprears* to be a good deal faster than the normal speed of play. I can still fast forward gamespeed as usual, but even on 'normal' speed my guests and coasters seem to be zooming along at significantly higher speed than they should.

This appeared to happen mid-scenario. Did I maybe hit a hotkey?

It also has stayed that way after restarting the game and starting a completely new scenario as well. So something seems to have changed for this game on my computer but I didn't purposefully change anything.

So recently I got solar panels installed on my home so I've been watching my electricity bills and usage closely and I have noticed some frustrating issues.

I live in the US northeast so right now we have some cloudy days but it's been warming up, not hot yet. I would have expected that my April bill would show close to break-even, maybe even generate some credits on my net meter. Well, no. The utility company didn't even have my account set to solar properly, though the meter is a solar-capable one.

Okay, so that's been addressed, but they tell me that the meter still worked the way it was supposed to. I'm a bit skeptical so I start watching my meter closely. Which brings us to the last two nights.

Last two nights I checked the meter sometime after the sun was below any generation power, then again around 7am the next day. First night showed somewhere around a net usage of ~+31-32 kWh. Now, we have a plug-in hybrid car that was charging, battery capacity just under 19kWh, so assuming charge is pretty efficient, that means we still used ~7-10 kWh over an 8 hr window.

So last night to get a better idea we don't plug in the car. 7pm-7am (so 12 hrs) we burned 13kWh of electricity.

Here'a the thing. *Nothing significant was running!* We have the AC set up to 74 or 75 and it's in the 60s outside at night so they didn't ever run. No lights. No appliances. My PC was on standby. I even unplugged our espresso machine, printer, and tried to think of any other small thing.

I feel like I'm going crazy. 13kWh is a CRAZY high number to burn through overnight with no AC or major appliances running. Average home burns through something like 30 in a day for annual average. Well, in April with no AC or lights or appliances at night, this should be well, *well* below such an average. We have a bigger home than most, but again, no AC or heat (heat is gas anyway, as is the hot water heater), so that shouldn't really come much into play.

I ordered a meter plug so I can test my appliances directly like my refrigerator to see if it's drawing more than it is supposed to for some reason.

But does anyone else have any ideas for narrowing this down?

My solar panels were supposed to be designed to cover 109% of my last year's annual usage, averaged out of course. And I don't believe we've changed any habits. We haven't added new appliances. So I'm worried we have a rogue appliance burning phantom power or our solar company grossly underdesigned the system for our usage. But based on the amount of power we drew last night, I'm suspecting an appliance out of whack.

Please help if you can!