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The values in the energy info tab are for average consumption ( W ) which is a power and not consumption ( Wh ) which represent energy.

There is two ways to correct the problem :
- Change the title from "Consumption" to "Average consumption"
- Keep the title but express all value in Wh ( or J )

As a extra request I would like to have both informations, maybe in tab to switch between average and consumption since both value are worthy of interest.

Thanks for the report however we're not going to change this.

There's nothing wrong with the units, an item can consume an average of 10 watts over a given timeframe (say 24h) if it consumes 240 watts for one hour and is idle for the other 23. Adding "average" doesn't make the message any more clear.

Nowhere in the electrical production panel does it say anything that it is showing the amount of energy consumed as opposed to the rate.