Energy Tab: Please track generic heat production instead of / in addition to natural gas consumption

Hi there,

first of all, thanks for Home Assistant.

I like the Energy Tab and its electricity statistics, where Home Assistant automatically creates a useful diagram tracking several electricity sources (grid, multiple PV inverters) and electricity consumers.

However, the natural gas consumption statistics are useless to me in their current form.

My home does not have a natural gas boiler, the heating uses a heat pump and solar thermal roof collectors. I get live heat production sensor data for both.

Instead of gas consumption, I’d like to see an additional “heat production” statistic and diagram similar to the electricity sources statistics.

The unit to track would be kWh and the heat statistics would then be able to track and sum up several heat sources in a shared diagram - heat pump, electric heater rod, solar thermal collectors, fossil boiler - whatever you may have installed in your home and that is able to report its heat production to HA.

The result would be a more meaningful way to track heat production and usage of my home.

Thanks for your attention.

An added bonus that would add some complexity to this feature would be a COP statistics diagram that could use my existing heat pump electricity consumption value and the heat pump’s heat production value to calculate the COP value and show it changing during the year.

One thing to note here is that my heat pump has two modes - heating and hot water - and reports consumption and production for both as separate values. I’d want to track two COP values plus a summarised COP value based on these reports.

From HA’s view, the heat production statistics and COP calculations could just allow incoming values from multiple heat pumps, with my HP’s two modes seen as two separate heat pumps. Then calculate the COP value for each HP and then a COP sum value based on the sums of all installed HPs in the home.

This would be very useful for my setup and I’m assuming other heat pump users have similar setups.