Energy Management - Actual Automation

Really loving the new Energy Management Dashboard, definitely one of my favorite features in Home Assistant. My idea would be to turn this into an actual automation platform instead of “only” being a Dashboad.

I imagine something like a dynamic priority system that is capable of turning devices (eg: heater) on and off based on the amount solar production. You would then be able to make a priority list of devices that should be turned on first.

I already did something like this in node-red and it does work, but it’s really complex and it would be nice to have this as a built in solution.

Another upside to this being implemented is that the frontend, to change the priorities, you be cleaner.
My frontend looks like this:

It does what it’s supposed to do but I had to create a whole page of node-red automations just so there would be no duplicates when changing the priority list.

It could look like the shopping integration:
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where you combine both of the cards showed before, so the checked devices are the only ones that are turned on and off and the priority would be in the order that they are placed in.

That’s it: overall this is a really nice integration and I believe it has a bright future ahead of it :slight_smile:

Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Just got my solar installed and was thinking of making something similar. I was hoping to make the priorities dynamic eg. Floor heating might be last on the list but if it never gets scheduled, the temperature will drop too low. At that point it would need to move to the top priority.

Have you made any progress on this? Care to share your node red flow?

+1 for this. We really need this.