Help a noob with setting up (per circuit) energy monitoring

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping to get some help / insights / suggestions on how to set up my energy monitoring. I am very new to home ownership, and hence everything around energy / power consumption is a bit difficult for me to grasp, but I ama trying to wrap my head around it (however I am a sucker for data so naturally I want to track nearly everything in the house :D).

The situation:
I have a Landis+Gyr E360 LTE in my garage. An EV charger is connected to it directly. The P1 port is used by a Perific Monitor load balancer. There seem to be no integrations for it, but this is a discussion for another day, the reason for mentioning is that the P1 port is occupied, and while I can use the Perific app to see total power consumption, and per-phase consumption, I cannot (yet) bring this into HA (and even if I could, it is not granular enough data for my needs).

Inside the house I have this beauty:

I will be hiring an electrician to replace this with a modern electrical panel, and help me figure out what rooms / outlets and hardwired stuff is on which circuit in the house. (there documentation I got from the previous owner is very vague). The electrician is also needed to do some other electrical work around the house.

What I would like to achieve:
Ideally, tracking the power consumption of every single circuit in the house separately (I thought this was a better idea than turning every wall outlet into a smartplug to do per device tracking? My thinking is that if there are 2-5 home appliances / lights / heaters (electric heating for now) on the same circuit, I would be able to tell what is on/off by the changes in total power drawn.)

Questions:
Are there complete electric panels that can be integrated with HA out of the box? Or do I have the electrician bring a panel, install it, and then add Shelly or other devices on top? Which ones? How many? Anything specific I need to say to the electrician? As you can tell I am a bit lost in this topic. :smiley:

If you have any suggestions, references to reading material, documentation, etc… I should look into our watch, please let me know!

I appreciate if you take the time to help a noob out! :slight_smile: Have a nice weekend!

What country? USA?

Offhand, there are smart panels, such as the SPAN smart panel, that come with apps for enabling / disabling circuits as needed. I’m not sure if there’s a Home Assistant integration for it.

Most folks go with CT clamps around each circuit at the panel. IotaWatt was one solution very popular because it was local. However, IIRC they shut down but then came back, so I’m not sure if they’re still selling products.

The Emporia Vue 2 is the other CT clamp solution that’s popular, and the direction I’ll likely be going when I get around to this. The main reason to go with monitoring at the panel via CT clamps rather than smart plugs is to safely monitor large loads like washers and dryers.

Sweden.

What is pushing you towards the clamp setup, compared to a set of Shelly Pro’s for example?

Thanks for your input! :slight_smile: