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Tilez energy prices

Day-ahead electricity prices for a zone from Tilez Cloud, as your contract prices them. Prices: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), CC BY 4.0.

In a dashboard file: a connection with "driver": "casa-prices", its settings in config, and what a data source of it reads in that data source’s params (Connections and data sources).

A dashboard with a connection of this driver, named prices, and a tile that reads it. Any number of tiles can read the same connection. In the editor, the values of params are picked from what the connection lists; ids in the example are made up.

{
"schemaVersion": 4,
"connections": {
"prices": {
"driver": "casa-prices",
"config": {
"server": "https://casa-cloud.app",
"serviceKey": "your service key",
"zone": "BE",
"slots": "quarter",
"multiplier": 1.1,
"markup": 0.02,
"gridCosts": 0.12,
"vat": 6
}
}
},
"screens": [
{
"name": "Home",
"tiles": [
{
"type": "graph",
"label": "Electricity prices",
"layout": { "x": 1, "y": 1, "width": 2, "height": 2 },
"dataSource": {
"connection": "prices",
"params": { "read": "rates", "window": "todayAndTomorrow" }
},
"options": {
"graph": {
"type": "bar",
"series": [{ "source": "primary", "color": "#4fb3ff" }],
"unit": "EUR/kWh",
"numberFormat": "0.000"
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
Field Type Default What
server text required Tilez Cloud. Tilez Cloud’s address, such as https://casa-cloud.app.
serviceKey text required Service key. Made on Tilez Cloud’s admin page, under Service keys. A credential.
zone one of AT (Austria), BE (Belgium), CH (Switzerland), CZ (Czech Republic), DE-LU (Germany and Luxembourg), DE-AT-LU (Germany, Austria and Luxembourg), DK1 (Denmark west), DK2 (Denmark east), FR (France), HU (Hungary), IT-North (Italy north), NL (Netherlands), NO2 (Norway south-west), PL (Poland), SE4 (Sweden south), SI (Slovenia) required Zone. The market’s bidding zone.
slots one of hour, quarter (Quarter-hour) required Prices per. As your contract prices it; its tariff sheet says: “Belpex H” or “uur” per hour, “Epex 15’”, “eSpot_15” or “kwartier” per quarter-hour.
multiplier number Multiplier. Of the market price in EUR/kWh; 1 when left out. A tariff sheet’s factor per €/MWh in c€/kWh, times 10: “0.11 × Belpex” is 1.1 here.
markup number Markup. EUR/kWh added to it; 0 when left out.
gridCosts number Grid costs and levies. EUR/kWh added to it; 0 when left out.
vat number, 0 to 100 VAT. % on the whole; 0 when left out.
refreshInterval number, above 0 Seconds between refreshes.
Field Type Default What
read one of rates (The prices), current (The price now), next (The next price), lowest (The lowest), highest (The highest), average (The average) required Read. The prices, for a graph or a sparkline; the price now; the next slot’s; the lowest, the highest or the average.
window one of today, tomorrow, todayAndTomorrow Over. The prices to come when left out; or today’s, tomorrow’s (once published, early afternoon), or both days.
refreshInterval number, above 0 Refresh every. Seconds; the connection’s setting when left out.