Energy sensors not listed to be added to Energy dashboard

[Benny-Git]

The problem

I created some new mqtt sensors I want to use on my Energy dashboard. I defined them like this:

sensor:
  - name: Heizung 1.8.1
    platform: mqtt
    state_topic: vzlogger/data/chn0/agg
    value_template: "{{ value_json.value }}"
    state_class: total_increasing
    device_class: energy
    unit_of_measurement: Wh

They don't show up in the entity list when I want to add a new entity to the Energy dashboard (/config/energy).

After reading many Discourse entries, I finally came up with a new name for the sensor, which works fine:

sensor:
  - name: Energy Heizung 1.8.1
    platform: mqtt
    state_topic: vzlogger/data/chn0/agg
    value_template: "{{ value_json.value }}"
    state_class: total_increasing
    device_class: energy
    unit_of_measurement: Wh

It looks like the Energy dashboard requires the word energy to come up in the sensor name. The device_class: energy is not enough.

I believe this is the root cause for a lot of issues with entities missing from the dashboard: #55356, #66860, #66747, #66194, #56781, #55933, #55356

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.4.7

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

energy

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/energy/electricity-grid/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[Benny-Git]

I don't think mqtt is the one to fix this, as the issue would affect all integrations that want to expose data to the Energy dashboard. For me it showed up on the mqtt integration, but as linked above other issues come from other integrations, and might be caused by the same behavior.

[emontnemery]

There's no limitation in the energy dashboard where it requires the name to include "energy". The problem is more likely to be that some statistics has already been recorded for the "Heizung 1.8.1" sensor where some setting was wrong, disqualifying the sensor from energy statistics.

Do you see anything listed on the "statistics" developer tool for the "Heizung 1.8.1" sensor?

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