#Automatically segment out energy consumption by peak/off-peak?

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tight temple
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I have many devices configured using a template entity to determine my peak/off-peak cost from the usage. However, in order to give myself more useful insights into my consumption, is there a way to split out my energy into peak/off-peak buckets?

eg: if my water heater used $25 worth of energy this month, I'd like to easily see how much of that $25 was peak versus off-peak while switching between days/weeks/months, so I could know how much I could potentially save by putting the water heater on a time of day switch.

inner jolt
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Sounds like what utility_meter is for.

grave kelpBOT
inner jolt
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Can toggle between multiple rates, and track the cost of each rate tariff separately.

tight temple
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https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-use-utility-meter-tariffs-to-conditionally-measure-things/706709
I saw that and came across the above guide, but it sounds like it's just doing a daily sum of the total peak/off-peak costs for your total energy consumption (I'm assuming sensor.energy_import is a HA-provided entity that is the entirety of the energy dashboard?) versus by entity.

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How to use Utility Meter Tariffs to conditionally measure things

The Utility Meter integration is used to measure accumulating values like energy, gas, water, heating and more. You can apply a cycle to make it reset whenever you want. So, for example, you can make a daily energy meter from a sensor that always increases. You can also use the tariffs option to create multiple conditional sensors from the one...

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This is the ultimate goal - row level breakdown of my energy sources

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patent zealot
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You can't do that in the energy dashboard, but as @inner jolt said, you can use a utility meter to make your own tracking helpers and custom dashboard

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If it was implemented.. Where does it stop? I have 3 rates on my winter tariff (peak, off peak, and normal), should there be a column for each of those? Or what about summer when I go on the agile tariff that changes every half hour to some number in the range -5 to 30p/kWh

tight temple
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You're absolutely right. I honestly didn't think that through fully nor explain that very well, and it came across as a pretty large feature request.

Would the utility_meter allow me to have separate entities for peak/offpeak usage on the Individual devices detail usage? Otherwise it seems my (semi-labor intensive) workaround would be to use PowerCalc to create separate peak and off-peak energy sensors for each of my circuits.

inner jolt
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That's exactly what meter does. It creates one sensor per tariff.

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Devices don't track cost though.