https://geekyschmidt.com/categories/chatgpt/Recent content in ChatGPT onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2023-09-21-chatgpt-energy-bills/Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:15:57 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2023-09-21-chatgpt-energy-bills/<p>I will do a little experiment and let ChatGPT also write this blog post. I have made minor edits to ensure it aligns with the screenshots, but this is not me!</p> <h3 id="a-few-essential-items-before-we-dive-in">A few essential items before we dive in:</h3> <ul> <li>I am using GPT4 with Data Analysis through a paid account</li> <li>I work in the energy space, so I knew basically what I was trying to do with the prompts</li> <li>The Consumers website could have done this analysis in precisely 3 clicks through their portal, so I saved little time</li> <li>Yes, we use a ton of electricity! We have a large geothermal system, 22kw solar array, and 26kw of batteries in the basement. We also have 2 Electric Vehicles and a manufacutring shop on the land.</li> </ul> <h3 id="chatgpt-shortcomings">ChatGPT Shortcomings:</h3> <ol> <li>There is no confidence rating here. You ask the model; it gives answers. Are those answers correct? Sometimes. There is a fallacy that you upload and ask away. In another exercise, I needed to go back and validate the PDF breakout, and the table read needed to be corrected. <em><strong>Verify everything.</strong></em></li> <li>For a site-by-site analysis, this works great, but scaling this would require API integration. Back to my first point here, you would trust that automation wholeheartedly.</li> <li>As technology advances, the ability to quickly ingest and distil complex tariff documents will be a net positive to the energy industry. We are close, but not there just yet.</li> </ol> <h3 id="steps-i-used-to-complete-this-exercise">Steps I used to complete this exercise:</h3> <ol> <li>I went to GreenButton Connect for Consumers and downloaded my interval and billing data. I tried using some lower-level interval data from my parallel metering, but it was too small of an interval to process correctly.</li> <li>Downloaded the latest tariff book for all Consumers Energy rates.</li> <li>Logged into ChatGPT, selected my GPT4 analysis mode and provided the prompt - <em>How does my utility bill compare to other people in Michigan?</em> before starting to have it evaluate the usage against the tariff specifically.</li> <li>Reviewed the Python code and processing</li> </ol> <p>You can see the entire chat minus the actual code here: <a href="https://chat.openai.com/share/fe77f5e1-b65f-4c52-a3f7-ef5fe2e7acb0">ChatGPT Chat Prompts</a></p>