As an add on, now that you can track the hours your furnace runs, you can also calculate how much natural gas it uses.
Find the BTU of your furnace. Determine the units that you pay for gas. We have a propane tanks so it’s by the gallon. 1 gallon of natural gas produces 85,098 BTU so based on this and the BTU of the furnace I can calculate it’s hourly use in gallons. Then create a new set of templates, integration, utility meters to track, instead of the template returning “1” for calculating hours, have it return how every many gallons of gas per hour the furnace uses. Usually I have 3 utility meters attached one to calculate daily, one for weekly and one for monthly.
