So I was watching Star Trek Picard Season 3 Episode 4 and he is talking near the end of the episode and he is recalling what he said to a bunch of young Star Fleet Cadets in a bar...
You're only ever really as good as those around you.
It really touched me because I have been saying the very same thing for years about all of you..
Thank you for helping to make me look good.

 
 

I found if I am going to a bar and want to look good, I bring a couple of my ugliest friends with me. 
 
Thanks for joining in Joe, but you look good no matter who you're with.

I been looking at my electric usage and bills, they re up there. Been cutting back over the last year and still they are too much.
I am switching over to a time of use plan where between 2PM to 7PM rates re high, but off hour rates are crazy low.
So I will cut back during peek hours nd add a box or two to off peek to make up for it. Hopefully I can do the same amount of work for less money
The worst of the high peek prices are in June, July, August and September. The rest of the year the high peek rates are the same as the regular prices and the off peek prices are quite low.
The Summer months I cut way back anyway. I'll bump up the A/C temp some in the Summer peek times, cool off the house before 2PM and see how it goes.

Oh my, the hops I have to jump through to get my boxes to sop crunching at 2PM and go to sleep, wake up at 7PM and crunch again and keep crunching with out going to sleep on me again. If BOINC is not installed as a service the computer will go to sleep even though it is crunching. If it is installed as a service it can not use a GPU.  So I thought of this, seems no easy answer.
So I have to use BOINC manager and set a schedule to run 7PM to 2PM and change it from run always to run as scheduled.
I will have to make a .bat scritp to put the system to sleep at 2:10PM and a script to awaken it at 7PM now to stop it from going to sleep again I have to set to sleep in 19hr20min and hope the go to sleep scritp will override the sleep in 19hr20min.
 
I think that should work? Look like it will? Know an easier way? Do share. 
 

I would just let the computer run and not allow it to sleep, it really uses very little power if no CPU or GPU tasks are running.
This save a lot of heartache in Windows 10/11.
Have you looked at the Daily schedules in the client software?
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Editing_computing_preferences_with_the_BOINC_Manager
 

Yeah that’s where I am going to schedule the time off. I may be able to leave it set to never sleep and just use the sleep/wake with task scheduler built into windows

A computer uses around 100 watts when idle and if five boxes running that’s 500 watt a hour for 5 hours is 2.5 kw times 5 days a week is 12.5 x 4 weeks is 50kw x12 is 600kw
600kw at .30 is 180$
Sometimes I have dozen or more boxes running. And it adds up

Electric here runs .10c a kw delivery plus anywhere from .06 to .22 for the electric
That adds up really fast

bill1024
Yeah that’s where I am going to schedule the time off. I may be able to leave it set to never sleep and just use the sleep/wake with task scheduler built into windows

A computer uses around 100 watts when idle and if five boxes running that’s 500 watt a hour for 5 hours is 2.5 kw times 5 days a week is 12.5 x 4 weeks is 50kw x12 is 600kw
600kw at .30 is 180$
Sometimes I have dozen or more boxes running. And it adds up

I just started to turn off my host when not running BOINC or Folding, but I wonder if UPS Units use up power?

I would think that they do use some power
They have to change their batteries and they have PCBs in them. Some do some magic to the sine waves to make them constant .
I’m not sure how much they use.
I have two in one room I get a chance I can plug one into the other and see what it does on a load and then take one off and see what the difference is.