I live in Iceland and 80% of my energy costs is geothermal hot water. Getting usage, price monitoring etc. for that is more helpful than monitoring electricity usage, though I use that. Also having an option to turn off the Grid Monitoring and percentages would be perfect as my energy is always 100% renewable.
Was searching for options.
This is very relevant. Here in Iceland and in places where central hot water is part of the energy distribution. The hot water consumption is both in m3 and kWh.
Measurements can include hot water temperature (incoming) and more important, the return temperature. High (e.g. higher than 30°C) is a indication of energy waste. The return volume is normally not measured and in Iceland it is normally goes with other waste waterâŠ
In Iceland, for residentials, the Water usage is normally not measured. We donât have GAS. Possibility to do ârename/rebrandingâ of existing energy dashboards features would be a workaround for many?
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not surprised, basically 90% of the population gets their hotwater by either getting it hot electrically or gas. most if not all countries dont have convenient access to a volcano.
In finland we have district heating in cities. Waste heat from power plants and from industry that is pumped for heating use.
Energy is measured in kWh, and return temperature should not be too high, because it is wasteful.
I use gas in energy dashboard, but would be nice if it could be renamed to something else.
We have the same in a lot of cities in the Netherlands. Also waiting patiently to be able to add my heat exchanger meter to the Energy Dashboard.
I pay âŹ180-200/month on heating and âŹ25/month on electricity. Iâd rather be able to monitor my heating use than my electricity use. =p
You can simply treat the âhot waterâ as a gas and it will do what you want. Just needs to have units m3
But my meter doesnât count volume. It counts energy (in GJ).
Now I could of course convert the GJ in how much m3 of gas that would nominally be, but thatâs weird.
I think being able to add a generic energy source would be best. Just give it a custom name (âheat energyâ, âgasâ, âoilâ, âgasolineâ, etc) and, unit (L, m3, J, kg, etc) and optionally a logo. Then everyoneâs wishes are covered. Because adding âheat energy or hot waterâ solves it for some. But the people with (diesel) generators, wood/pellet heaters or homemade nuclear reactors will still be out of luck then.
If your units are already an enegry, just convert it to kw and itâll work.
Isnât the gas part of the Energy Dashboard expressed only in m3? I didnât see you could also choose kWh.
Edit: Oh, nice. I didnât know this:
From the âadd a Gas source dialogueâ:
âPick a sensor which measures gas consumption in either of CCF, ftÂł, mÂł, GJ, kWh, MJ, MWh, Wh.â
So I guess itâs doable. But an option to change the name âGasâ to something else still would be nice to have. =)
