Today's vs This Month's vs Total Energy Consumption

I have some TPLink Leds which i am trying to setup. For the same device there are three options i.e. Today’s, this Month’s and Total Consumption.

What is the difference in reporting. Simply want to be as granular as possible.

All of those will work the same for energy dashboard, doesn’t matter which one you pick.

Okay, why the different options though in the first place?

The energy dashboard doesn’t know that they’re all equivalent, it’s just giving you a choice of all valid entities in your system.