Home Assistant adds Hydro-Québec’s peak-demand event times as inputs for automations. Households can use them to prepare before a winter peak, such as preheating a home before reducing consumption during an event.
The new connection reads the utility’s public data feed without a Hydro-Québec account. Customers enrolled in eligible peak-saving offers can use the times to help plan around those programs; this connection supplies event timestamps rather than enrolling anyone or calculating savings. Beat makes his first contribution to Home Assistant Core with the integration.