Hi,
the Electricity Maps integration is working correctly and shows a valid fossil fuel share, for example 51.37%.
However, the Home Assistant Energy Dashboard always displays 0% low-carbon electricity consumed.
The grid import itself is shown correctly, so only the low-carbon percentage seems to be wrong.
Has anyone seen this before or knows why the Energy Dashboard is not using the Electricity Maps value correctly?
Thanks!
Just to clarify: the Electricity Maps sensor itself works correctly and the data is available in Home Assistant.
The issue seems to be only with the Energy Dashboard display/calculation, which always shows 0% low-carbon electricity.
Hi , and welcome to this Forum
I Wonder if this is for a Custom_Integration ?, if so please provide an url to it’s Github-Repos
Also the Category, and Tags should also reflect this
( Yes i’ve never heard about the “Electricity Maps Integration” , i also Don’t have any Carbon-sensors in my Energy-Dashboard , so i can’t really help you on this.
However, it would also be important if you show this “sensor” configuration/definition, so people know how it looks like.
i.e
Does it have correct device-class & state-class etc
So Click on /Settings/Tools, choose States, and find your Entities there, and post i.e a picture of it’s Attributes
It’s nice. They calculate the renewable energy in your grid.
Ist this the picture you asked for? @boheme61
If your country is anything like the Netherlands, or even other countries in the EU then the percentage of renewable energy that that region produces is not relevant to your home use.
That is because of the trade in renewable energy rights. I pay on my energy bill for 100% renewable energy. You can also opt for other minimum renewable percentages. Those people that don’t explicitly ask renewable get the rest (i.e. mostly not renewable).
Because Energy companies need to prove they sell me renewable, if they do not produce enough, then they trade renewable energy rights with companies from other countries, like Norway that has many renewable facilities.
So the percentage in those countries is also skewed, and their price is lower allowing non renewable to exist and renewable production to be profitable while selling low priced contracts (that do not make guarantees on renewable). They get the rest of the money from trading renewable energy rights. Basically, renewable energy plants can sell non renewable energy produced by others.
The renewable energy isn’t physically swapped with non renewable, but goes to a home nearby where it was produced. But effectively you get wat you pay for. Not what is produced where you live. It was swapped financially. So if you do not buy renewable, you are effectively buying more non renewable, regardless of wether you are living near where renewable energy is produced.
