This poster displays the power values of a household, taken at one minute intervals, repeatedly plotted over a 24 hour cycle. By displaying this normally dry data in a form that emphasises and illuminates otherwise hidden features, it allows stories to be both told and imagined, and our own behaviour better understood. That spike at 3am - when the graph is read like a 24hr clock - was a one-off nighttime cup of tea... can boiling the kettle just once really use so much energy? That consistent peak must be dinner time. And is that wave, visible at night, the fridge on its cycle - running all day every day?
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