Hi,
I have a PV installation at home and a home battery and using a dynamic electricity tariff, where the price for my electricity changes every hour.
I’m using HA as an energy management system for my home.
Currently I’m retrieving electricity prices using the following integration: GitHub - JaccoR/hass-entso-e: Integration for Home Assistant to fetch day ahead energy prices from European countries via ENTSO-e Transparency Platform
However, many others exist, Nordpool is a popular one for example.
To add intelligence without relying (too much) on automations I’m looking at several integrations, such as
EMHASS
But here’s my problem: these integrations all rely on different dynamic electricity ‘providers’. (ev smart charging actually is fully flexible since recent versions)
It depends on the developer of the plugin to add support to other providers.
I’m sure I can set up multiple electricity price providers in my home assistant instance, but this complicates the setup IMHO. Also, some providers are country specific.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to create a ‘unified’ electricity provider that other integrations can use? Preferably before these type of integrations become more and more popular and diverse and start to multiply?
What are your thoughts on this? Should it be something HA core provides for (a standardized format more likely instead of a full integration in that case) or a third party plugin that attempts to map the existing providers to a unified output? Or is this a non-issue?