The utility meter however does not. As you can see, the tracking is just started and he bumped up to 250kW (while the today energy is way below, less than 3kW):
I would start by fixing the units of your energy sensor. kW is a unit of power, not a unit of energy. Your energy sensor is probably reporting units of kWh so I would recommend correcting that first.
Then, I would look at the plot of the sensor and verify every value is equal or larger than the previous value. If not, the utility meter should have net_consumption set to true