My energy dashboard contains a lot of valuable information, I want to be able to do things with this - already available - information.
Things such as retrieving yesterdays/last weeks consumption of specific devices or the entire home.
For instance, I would like HA to send me a message every morning about yesterday’s power consumption, Solar power returned and consumed, consumed gas and the costs for these things.
This information is available (since the energy dashboard can show it) yet it can’t be retrieved and used elsewhere (e.g. automations, scripts…), except by doing queries directly from the database (which can be pretty complex) and putting those into entities. Which basically duplicates the already existing information… 