The EU energy markets prices their energy ever hour differently. If you want to know today's cheapest moments to charge your EV or pushing back energy into the net you can use this site to follow the hourly pricing for your EU country.
Or you can use this app (formerly known as add-on) to do it for you.
I made this app for my own uses but I can imagine that more people can benefit from it.
The app will provide hourly sensors with the upcoming pricing for that hour.
These sensor then can be used to trigger an automation and do whatever you need.
Yaml example
automation:
- alias: "Turn on washing machine at low energy price"
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "14:00:00"
condition:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.eu_energy_live_nl_prijs_1400
below: 0.05
action:
- service: switch.turn_on
target:
entity_id: switch.washing_machine
Code, how to install and more can be found here
https://github.com/AshaiRey/EU_Energy_live
*(Disclaimer: *
While the coding was rather simple I used Claude.ai to check the code and asked for improvements. Using this code is at your own risk and I will not be responsible for any provided code nor for the presented data.)