This is my newly created Energy Dashboard:
Looks very “green” and rather fossil free on the first glance. Except it is not. If you look closely, it is not, because the “Non-fossil energy consumed” gauge is not really showing “energy” but just electricity. If you include the natural gas from the upper diagram, instead of 78%, only 4% of my energy are coming from non-fossil sources. A completely different picture.
I think the wording should be changed, at least when there is a gas source configured, so that it is “Non-fossil electricity consumed” or similar, as this graph is about electricity only, not about energy. Same for “Energy usage” on the top left. It is just electricity usage.
This might be even considered a bug (don’t know) because what is displayed is clearly wrong, and misleading.
Now my feature request would be a gauge that shows non-fossil content for Electricity+Gas (and maybe other sources, like district heating, oil … whatever HA will meter eventually. One that would give the true, ugly picture of 4% non-fossil energy (on a cold day here in Austria in a huge 70ies house not very well isolated).
Thanks for considering
Ralph